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Marion County man sentenced for providing alcohol to minor

By WRCB Staff

MARION COUNTY, TN (WRCB) A Marion County man has been sentenced for providing alcohol to a minor, that minor died of alcohol poisoning.

Gary Dickens was sentenced to serve 120 days in jail, then he’ll be on probation for about a year.

It all stems from a party back in November 2007.

Investigators say 18-year-old Hershey Privett passed out.

Then Dickens and two others shaved Privett’s head, eyebrows and genital area, and spray-painted his body green.