Two

carjackers who were thwarted by their victim's

quick thinking last spring pled guilty last week

in Fayette County Superior Court.

Stephen

Eric Bonnette and David E. McDonald, both of

Ohio, were sentenced to 12 years to serve in

prison and ten years on probation for two counts

of kidnapping and one charge of theft by taking,

according to court records.

The

men took control of a Mercedes in the parking lot

of a Fayetteville shopping center last April

while the woman driver and her 2-year-old

daughter were inside the car.

Esther

Green called 911 on her cellular phone and left

it on while she gave dispatchers clues to her

whereabouts, undetected by her captors. They were

captured in Riverdale, with neither Green nor her

daughter harmed.

The

case received national attention, as Green and

members of the county's 911 department appeared

on news shows recounting the tale.

In

other unrelated cases last week:

� Joseph Lenford Davis of

Smyrna pled guilty to impersonating an officer

and received five years probation and a $1,000

fine. He got a concurrent 12-month probationary

sentence for driving with a suspended license.

Davis

was stopped last July for a bad tail light and

used a badge of a Fulton County probation officer

in an attempt to fool a Fayette County officer,

court records stated.

� Keith Britton Smith of

Peachtree City pled guilty to five counts of

burglary and was sentenced to ten years to serve

in prison. He broke into several different

Fayetteville homes within eight days in December

1998.

� Carl Ambrose Spralling of

College Park pled guilty to theft by receiving

and numerous traffic offenses, for which he

received five years probation. He was stopped on

Ga. Highway 279 in January of 1999 in a car that

was confirmed stolen.

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