Globe glosses over accused killer's probation violations

Buried at the end of Saturday's Joplin Globe story on the preliminary hearing for the accused killers of Bob and Ellen Sheldon of Carthage was a brief mention of Winans' previous criminal record and probation violations:

Winans also has a brief criminal record, including a felony charge of drug possession in Jasper County that was pleaded down to misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia in May of last year. When the drug charge was first filed in January 2008, he was on probation in Barton County for stealing a vehicle in 2005. The charge resulted in revocation of his probation and 120 days of shock incarceration.

He was placed back on probation a short time before the Sheldon murders.

This reads more like the Joplin Globe attempting to show that this information, which it has not featured in any other story about the murders since Darren Winans and Matthew Laurin were arrested two months ago, is not really that important.

At this link, you can find what has been written in The Turner Report about Winans' probation violations.