Akeenen Anton Lamar Hunt, 34, Fishers
HANCOCK COUNTY — Akeenen Anton Lamar Hunt, the Fishers man who was found guilty on 102 counts of invasion of privacy and four counts of obstruction of justice following a four-day jury trial in August, had his sentencing hearing Tuesday.
While the sentencing hearing was this week in Hancock County Circuit Court, Judge Scott Sirk said he will not make a determination on the actual years to be served until the end of the month. Hunt, 34, is facing up to over 100 years in prison due to the numerous crimes he was convicted of committing.
Prosecutor Brent Eaton asked the court to consider the full weight of the decisions of the defendant and order a combined total sentence of 103 years and 9 months (270 days) to be executed at the Indiana Department of Corrections with no time suspended and no probation.
“I’m encouraged the court is going to take the time and look at the law and consider everything before it makes a decision,” Eaton said.
Eaton noted he filed a memorandum with the court sighting case law surrounding his reasoning for asking for the 100-plus-year term.
The public defender, Myron A. Rahn, asked the court for a far lesser sentence wanting only 12 years to be served for the 106 misdemeanor and Level 5 felony crimes, saying murder sentences are not as lengthy as what the state is asking for.
“I’ll be happy to comment more once the sentencing has been finalized, and I look forward to the judge handing down a fair sentence,” Rahn said.
Sirk, after hearing presentations and testimony from both sides, told the court he needed some time to take the case under advisement. Sirk then said he would announce his decision in open court at 1:30 p.m. Sept. 26.
At the time of the crimes in this case, Hunt was incarcerated in the Hancock County Jail while awaiting trial for charges including kidnapping, rape, invasion of privacy, burglary, leaving the scene of an accident causing injury, criminal recklessness, criminal confinement, and domestic battery, all committed in the early morning hours of December 13, 2023. Hunt was convicted on 15 charges in that case during a July jury trial and was sentenced to a 46-year term for those crimes.
Hunt had an initial hearing on the Dec. 13 charges on Dec. 20, 2023, where Sirk issued a no-contact order, prohibiting Hunt from having any contact with the victim of that December assault. Notably, at the time Hunt committed the crimes in Hancock County on Dec. 13, he was out on bond for another domestic violence incident involving the same victim in Hamilton County. Magistrate Chadwick Hill had similarly ordered Hunt not to have any contact with the victim. While in the Hancock County Jail, Hunt repeatedly violated both the Hamilton and Hancock County no-contact orders by contacting the victim of the previous case after being court-ordered not to do so. Records show that Hunt made 118 calls to the victim between December 24, 2023, and January 3, 2024, all against the court orders.
Out of the 118 calls, Hunt made verbal contact with the victim in approximately 32 of them. In many of the recorded calls documented by the Greenfield Police Department and the Hancock County Jail, Hunt incriminated himself by providing details related to the crimes he committed on December 13, 2023, when the charges in the previous case were filed against him.
Additionally, several calls documented Hunt’s attempts to coerce the victim into changing her statement. On multiple occasions, Hunt requested that the victim go to court to try to vacate the no-contact order, acknowledging his awareness of the order and its restrictions. Furthermore, Hunt offered things of value to the victim in exchange for actions that would benefit him or his case, such as paying for her rent.
Hunt remains in custody at the Hancock County Jail and actually has another case currently set for trial in October for similar obstruction charges. However, Eaton noted that case may be dropped due to how many years in prison Hunt is already facing however, much depends on the term the court hands down.
Hunt, Eaton noted, told the court he regrets ever coming to Hancock County.
