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    Steven Wiggins takes plea deal on federal charges

    By Joe Wenzel
    WSMV

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The man already on death row for the murder of Dickson County Sheriff’s Deputy Sergeant Daniel Baker has taken a plea deal on federal charges against him.

    In the federal case against him, Steven Wiggins received a life sentence plus ten years. However, he’s already on death row after receiving a death sentence last year.

    In this case, the government has agreed to drop the death penalty in order to save Daniel Baker’s widow from going through another case.

    Baker was a Dickson County Sheriff’s deputy when he was shot and killed by Wiggins during a routine stop in 2018. Authorities said Wiggins then took off in his patrol car with Baker in it and set it on fire.

    Ericka Castro-Miles is also charged in this case. She has not gone to trial yet.

    The sentencing date for Wiggins will be April 20.

    https://www.wsmv.com/2022/03/25/stev...deral-charges/

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    Steven Wiggins sentenced to life in prison until death penalty

    By Emily West
    News Channel 5 Nashville

    A federal judge sentenced Steven Wiggins — a Dickson man who killed a sheriff's officer in 2018 — to life in prison.

    Wiggins, 33, was indicted by a federal grand jury on carjacking and firearms violations. He was previously charged with killing Dickson County Sheriff's Office Sergeant Daniel Baker. Wiggins pleaded guilty to the federal charges under a binding plea agreement with an agreed sentence of life imprisonment.

    Following Tuesday's sentencing, and in keeping with the terms of the plea agreement, the United States moved to withdraw its notice of intent to seek the death penalty, and Wiggins will serve life in prison. This sentence has no effect on the state’s previously imposed death sentence, which will continue to move forward.

    “Our office will never let a criminal attack on law enforcement go unanswered,” said U.S. Attorney Mark H. Wildasin. “The full force of the Department of Justice will be brought to bear on anyone who commits such a heinous crime. I want to acknowledge the painstaking work of our many law enforcement partners, including District Attorney General Ray Crouch, who led the prosecution efforts at the state level, as we proceeded with the parallel prosecutions of Wiggins. Finally, let me acknowledge and thank Lisa Baker, Sergeant Baker’s widow, for staying the course through many difficult days of proceedings during the past four years. Together, we have achieved justice for Sergeant Baker.”

    https://www.newschannel5.com/news/st...Tz7ofAQ689Wdlc
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    Castro-Miles enters guilty plea deal in Sgt. Baker death. Here's her sentence.

    By Chris Gadd
    The Nashville Tennessean

    Erika Castro-Miles, the woman charged in the shooting death of Dickson County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Daniel Baker, entered a deal Friday to enter a guilty plea for second degree murder and serve 15 years in prison.

    Castro-Miles, 42, who was charged with first-degree murder for Baker’s murder nearly four years ago, will be given credit for the five years she’s already served.

    The agreement was reached after two days of the jury trial in Dickson County Circuit Court.

    State prosecutors asserted this week that Castro-Miles “acted as one” with convicted killer Steven Wiggins. However, the attorneys for Erika Castro-Miles contended she was abused by Wiggins and took no part in Baker’s May 30, 2018 shooting death.

    Wiggins was found guilty and sentenced to death last year for Baker’s murder.

    Baker’s body camera shows the sergeant’s final moments shortly after responding to a call about a car — later determined to have a flat tire and be Castro-Miles' vehicle — parked on the side of the road. Wiggins and Castro Miles were asleep inside the car before Baker’s arrival.

    Baker was notified by dispatch the vehicle was reported stolen and then ordered Wiggins out of the car. In Baker’s body camera footage, Wiggins complained that he couldn't open the door, stating it was broken.

    Throughout this interaction, Castro-Miles was seated in the passenger side.

    Baker asked if the passenger side door worked. Wiggins said yes, and Baker walked to the other side, telling Wiggins to keep his hands visible. As Baker approaches the passenger side, gunshots are heard. Baker was shot by a .45-caliber handgun and the body camera provides a first-person perspective as he ran for cover.

    Castro-Miles would later testify that shell casings hit her face as Wiggins fired through the passenger window.

    ‘One phone call’

    A day prior to the shooting, on May 29, 2018, Castro-Miles ran from a motel room she shared with Wiggins and asked the front desk worker to call police. She reported that Wiggins had abused her and stole her car. Law enforcement searched the hotel room and found drug paraphernalia as well Castro-Miles' purse, which contained .45 caliber ammunition, said District Attorney Ray Crouch.

    Officers took a report and obtained warrants against Wiggins. About two hours later, Wiggins drove back, picked up Castro-Miles and they both left together in her car, Crouch stated.

    “One phone call. One phone call, the evidence will show, and we wouldn’t be here today,” Crouch told jurors. “Had the defendant called right then, as instructed by law enforcement, we would not be here today.”

    Instead, Crouch said, Castro-Miles spent the next 24 hours in her vehicle, driving around Dickson. Crouch said she had “many, many” opportunities to leave Wiggins, adding that she was “away” from him in stores.

    “They acted as one in everything they did. It’s impossible to separate their actions in this case,” Crouch said.

    ‘Would he have killed her, too?’

    Castro-Miles’ defense attorney Jake Fendley told the jurors during his opening statement that state prosecutors “don’t have a case against Erika other than her being with her abuser, Steven Wiggins. We all know that Erika did not murder Sgt. Baker.”

    Also, Fendley said he would argue later that she could not have “simply made a phone call.”

    He told jurors that “You are going to hear that she was beat, her hair was ripped out, she was choked with a hotel room phone cord and she had a gun held to her head” by Wiggins.

    Wiggins stripped her down, accusing her of “wearing a wire,” said Fendley, adding that Wiggins “broke her phone.”

    Fendley emphasized that Castro-Miles “said nothing” during the interaction with Baker.

    “She doesn’t tell Sgt. Baker anything that’s going on. She doesn’t have the courage to do that,” Fendley said.

    He asks if she had spoken up, “Would he have killed her, too? Or, maybe he would have just killed her instead.”

    https://tennessean.com/story/news/lo...ce/9674711002/

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