A Menlo man has been sentence to six months in a detention center and ten-years probation after he pleaded guilty to exploitation and intimidation of an elderly family member.

According to previous reports, Christopher Chase Deberry was accused of grabbing an elderly, disabled family member’s arm and twisting it, causing it to bleed.  Deberry had been banned from the home of the family member in the past.  While Deberry was being processed at the Chattooga County Jail in connection with those charges, he was found to be in possession of drugs and was additionally charged with crossing the guard lines with drugs.

Deberry has a long history of arrests in Chattooga County.

He was indicted by the Chattooga County Grand Jury last October and was sentenced this month in Chattooga County Superior Court after pleading guilty to the charges.