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Trial set in robbery, kidnapping case

By Brad Kellar

Hunt County – Trial has been scheduled for a Greenville man, charged with aggravated robbery and kidnapping at a Hunt County game room a year ago.

24-year-old Michael Ray Bell's alleged accomplice, Jackie Lawrence Scott, is facing trial early next year on the same charges.

Bell pleaded not guilty to both counts in June. A hearing has now been set for March 8.

Bell and Scott were two of the three people who were alleged to have held an employee of the Peach Tree Game Room eight-liner parlor on State Highway 34 at gunpoint and to have strapped him down with duct tape in the bathroom of the business on Dec. 19, 2008.

Billy Lee Massey pleaded guilty to both counts in January and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.