This is the photo that Mark Earnest, father of Daisha Earnest (on the left), posing for the supposedly-sexy Facebook ducklips pics with her bestie Tifini Lindemann, threatened to sue Disclosure over after lying to them and telling Disclosure staff that his daughter was a minor…which wouldn’t matter anyway, since it was a public photo posted on a public Facebook page (Lindemann’s). Earnest, it’s reported, has coddled his kid and bailed her out so many times that she now believes she can do no wrong…which might be exactly what her criminal problems are all about.
Daisha Earnest
JASPER CO. – A teen with a bad habit and ill-tempered family members who are enabling that habit is back on the court docket after reportedly failing a urine test.
Daisha B. Earnest, 18, caught a set of serious charges last October: Class 3 felony Meth Possession, and Class 4 felony Possession of a Controlled Substance (pills).
In January, she entered a plea to the pill charge with the meth count being dismissed, and was placed on two years of probation, ordered to pay $1,532 in fines and fees, 30 hours of public service, an order to attend drug treatment, and a 90-day jail sentence, stayed.
Earnest, however, found herself right smack in jail the third weekend of July, this after she was accused of being in violation of some other of the terms of her bond: She had to stay off drugs and alcohol, and apparently she did not, as it was alleged that she had failed a urinalysis for substances.
She was housed in the Jasper County jail on or about July 19 and there she stayed until a court hearing the following Sunday, July 23, when her grandmother, Nancy Earnest, was able to post bond for her.
Upon filing of the bond the next day, a bond return date (a procedural thing that not all counties participate in) was set for August 17.
Bond return isn’t necessarily preferential treatment…but that’s not because the Earnests don’t expect it.
For whatever reason, the family members mentioned are of the opinion that their “baby” Daisha can do no wrong, and have insisted on such preferential treatment – to no avail – ever since their “baby” was first arrested shortly after her 18th birthday last year.
Sadly, their coddling of their little felon is likely the reason she bred at such an early age, as she already has a 2-year-old daughter who’s also had to suffer her mother’s doping and problems with the law and the courts.
It doesn’t help that Ms. Earnest has been known to run with the wrong crowd, one of those being Tifini (pronounced “Tiffany”) Lindemann, 19, of Newton.
It’s been reported that Earnest was the one who supplied bond money for Lindemann after Lindemann was busted in February in a traffic stop in Effingham County. She was charged with Possession of Meth less than 5 grams, a Class 3 felony, and the case was taken in front of a grand jury a couple of weeks later, just to be on the safe side. A true bill of indictment was returned and filed, and Lindemann didn’t have to go through a preliminary hearing on account of it.
Things seemed to be going along alright for Daisha’s buddy Tifini until Tifini hooked up with a kid all the way over in the village of Palestine in Crawford County. And while Crawford isn’t that far-flung from Newton, the place from where the kid she hooked up with certainly was: Dakota W. Clark, 19, of Eldorado in Saline, five counties to the south, was behind the wheel of a Dodge truck that was pulled over on the afternoon of June 21.
Clark was cited for Driving on Suspended License and on July 24, he entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to a fine of $383, $150 of which has been paid to date.
Tifini Lindemann was another situation, however.
When a check was run on her ID, Palestine police discovered that she was wanted on a warrant out of Effingham for Failure to Appear on her meth possession charge there after she didn’t show up for a regular pretrial hearing on May 4.
Lindemann was cited for not wearing her seatbelt, and Effingham County was notified. She was booked and ultimately transported to Effingham, where she’s now been set for a final pretrial conference on August 17, and a jury trial on Aus. 28.
So now both girls, Earnest and Lindemann, best buds according to their Facebook pages, are complete screw-ups at tender ages, with no end in sight.
Earnest – as well as members of her family, including her father Mark and her grandmother Nancy – is probably just beginning the probation roulette. She is most assuredly enabled by her father, who engaged Disclosure staff in a ridiculous text argument back in April over the presence of Daisha Earnest’s photo (pictured in an obligatory “look-at-my-boobs” shot on Lindemann’s Facebook page with Lindemann). Mark Earnest demanded the photo be removed from Disclosure’s website because his child “was a minor.” Disclosure staff played him along, getting him to state several times that he was going to sue the publication, until Disclosure sent him Daisha Earnest’s mugshot from her October 2016 arrest accompanied by two words: “This yours?”
Earnest opted not to respond to that and was never heard from again, although when Disclosure places the full text conversation on the website in the coming weeks, he’ll probably pipe back up again with more impotent threats of litigation.
Other than the bond return date, as of press time, there have been no other court appearances set for Daisha Earnest.