CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – The second defendant in the 2022 fentanyl homicide of a 19-year-old Montgomery County woman has taken a plea, resolving the remaining charges in the case just weeks before her scheduled trial.
The victim, Amber Locke of Palmyra, was a 2020 graduate of Montgomery Central High School, according to her obituary.
Brittany Michelle Hodges, 26, was scheduled to stand trial later this month when she pleaded guilty on July 1 to reckless homicide and received a four-year term of judicial diversion, according to court records. Judicial diversion allows a defendant to avoid a conviction if they successfully complete probation. All remaining charges were dismissed as part of the settlement.
Hodges’ plea follows the May 18 settlement of co-defendant Koby Juwan Perry, 28. Perry had been scheduled to stand trial that morning when he pleaded guilty to sale of less than a half-gram of a Schedule II drug, according to previous reports. He was sentenced as a Range II offender to eight years of probation with judicial diversion, and all remaining counts were dismissed.
An August 2022 indictment returned by a Montgomery County grand jury had originally charged Hodges and Perry with second-degree murder by distribution of fentanyl in Locke’s March 3, 2022, death. Perry was also indicted on two additional counts: selling and delivering fentanyl.
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