Jacob Shives of Knoxville was sentenced to five years in prison in Marion County District Court on Thursday.

Shives pled guilty to Second Degree Criminal Mischief, Assault of a Person in a Certain Occupation, and Driving While Barred Habitual Offender. Shives was arrested in early February on the criminal mischief charge after he destroyed a home with a golf club and posted the video on social media after causing an estimated $10,000 of damage to the home. 

Shives was also arrested on February 18th for Driving While Barred, criminal mischief and trespassing on February 24th, felony criminal mischief on March 5th, seven counts of failure to appear/contempt on March 8th, and then was arrested again on March 11th for Fourth Degree Criminal Mischief. Shives was also arrested for Assault by Inmate with Bodily Fluids, Assault on Persons in Certain Occupations, and Assault on Persons in Certain Occupations Causing Bodily Injury while in the Marion County Jail. 

Marion County Jail Administrator Reed Kious gave twelve different examples of Shives’s behavior while in jail resulting in disciplinary action during testimony at the sentencing. According to Kious, Shives repeatedly was smearing his feces in his cell and on cameras, faked seizures, punched walls, punched cameras, broke lunch trays, had to be restrained multiple times, injured jail staff including spitting on their faces, head butting doors, continued to injure his head by banging it against the wall. Kious described Shives as manipulative by throwing tantrums when he didn’t get what he wanted. Evidence was also shown to the court of the damage Shives did to the home in a post he made on the social media app Snapchat, in which he expressed pride for the damage he did. 

The State asked for a sentence of nine years in prison while his attorney Erin Carr asked for probation and long term treatment. The State, represented by Marion County Assistant Attorney Joy Messer stated that Shives has an extensive criminal history and has been on probation four times, been revoked four times, had multiple instances of failing to appear in court, and had been given chance after chance. Shives’ attorney stated that he needed serious mental health treatment and has never had a chance in his life to receive the treatment he needed. 

Judge Thomas Murphy sentenced Shives to five years in prison on the criminal mischief charge, two years on the assault charge, and two years on the driving while barred charge, running them concurrently for a total of five years.