Kathleen Mathews, left, mother of Jesse Mathews, and sister Rachel Mathews, right, are led into the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Chattanooga today. Jesse Mathews is charged with the 2011 killing of Chattanooga Police Dept. Sgt. Tim Chapin. Kathleen Mathews and her husband Ray Mathews, daughter Rachel and her boyfriend James Poteete, are awaiting sentencing in federal court after they pleaded guilty to crimes before and after police say Jesse Mathews killed Chapin.
Photo by
Dan Henry .
published Monday, February 13th, 2012
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U.S. District Court Judge Sandy Mattice sentenced Kathleen Mathews to 30 years and six months for her role in helping her son escape from a Colorado halfway house, sell guns he stole and withhold information from investigators after a Chattanooga police sergeant was shot and killed during a botched robbery on Brainerd Road last year.
