Decatur County man Wayne Taylor pleads guilty, gets probation and $2,720 restitution

Wayne Taylor pleaded guilty to a felony count of tax evasion and was sentenced to one year of supervised probation and $2,720 in restitution, court filings and local reporting show.

Court records identify Taylor by name and show the charge arose after he submitted false documents to obtain a boat registration at the Decatur County Clerk’s Office. Taylor entered the plea in Decatur County court on March 4, 2026, according to the filing excerpts available to reporters.

The case was investigated by the Special Investigations Section of the Tennessee Department of Revenue, which referred the matter for prosecution. Revenue Commissioner David Gerregano commented on the outcome, saying, "the guilty plea highlights the department’s efforts to promote compliance and hold fraudulent actors accountable."

Judge J. Brent Bradberry accepted the plea and imposed the sentence. As FOX54 reported, "Wayne Taylor entered the plea in court, and Judge J. Brent Bradberry sentenced him to one year of supervised probation." The station also reported, "He was also ordered to pay $2,720 in restitution."

The publicly available excerpts name Taylor and describe the submission of falsified documents at the Decatur County Clerk’s Office, but they do not include a court docket number, the name of Taylor’s attorney, his age or address, or a detailed breakdown of how the $2,720 restitution figure was calculated. Prosecutors and the Clerk’s Office did not provide those specifics in the material published with the reporting.

FOX54 and WZDX carried the initial coverage; the Tennessee Department of Revenue’s Special Investigations Section is listed as the investigating unit in the reports. The matter was filed and resolved under state tax-evasion charges tied to the boat-registration paperwork submitted in Decatur County.

The sentence places Taylor on supervised probation for one year with a restitution obligation of $2,720, and the Department of Revenue framed the plea as an example of its enforcement work in Tennessee communities such as Decatur County.