A Missouri man arrested earlier this year and sentenced last week for cashing altered checks at banks in Ozark and Douglas counties is now in jail in Baxter County for doing the same thing in Mountain Home. Thirty-five-year-old Willie Thomas Clemmer Jr. of Springfield was extradited from the Ozark County Jail Friday, two days after his court date on forgery and theft charges in Ozark and Douglas counties.
In a plea deal with the state, Clemmer pled guilty to one charge of forgery and all other charges, including another count of forgery and two counts of stealing, were dropped. He was sentenced to ten years in the Missouri Department of Corrections but was given a suspended execution of sentence, meaning the jail time is put on hold, and was sentenced to five years of supervised probation. The plea deal was the same in both Ozark and Douglas counties and the sentences will run concurrently.
Clemmer was originally arrested in May after a Douglas County grand jury indicted him…