By MONROE ROARK
mroark@thecitizennews.com

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.