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Two wives get wise, snare shared hubby
They orchestrate his arrest on bigamy charge

CARY - Two women married to the same man teamed up this week to turn him over to police, one of the wives said Wednesday.

Police charged Keron Lamont Wilkins, 30, of 104 Home Trace Circle in Clayton with one felony count of bigamy, according to an arrest warrant filed at the Wake County Magistrate's Office early Tuesday morning.

Bigamy is a Class 1 felony, punishable by four to 10 months in prison.

Police accused Wilkins of marrying Shannetta Dawn Stone, 32, of Richmond, Va., on March 20 while he was married to Chaka Miles Wilkins, his wife of eight years and the mother of his children, ages 4 and 8 months.

Stone first learned of the suspected bigamy April 19, when she talked with Keron Wilkins' mother, Cynthia Moody, a teacher's aide in Emporia, Va.

Stone said Moody told her that her son was married to someone else.

Stone confronted Wilkins, but he lied, saying he was not married. Stone gave him a week to produce divorce papers or she would call the police.

More than a week passed.

Man's wife No. 3 comes forward

A third woman came forward today to say that she, too, is married to a Clayton man who already is charged with being married to two women at the same time.

Jenean Baker, 34, of Atlanta said she and Keron Wilkins wed Nov. 25, 2005, in Miami. She said Wilkins had her name tattooed on his chest.

Wilkins, 30, is in jail on a bigamy charge. He is accused of marrying Shannetta Dawn Stone, 32, of Richmond, Va., on March 20 while he was also married to Chaka Miles Wilkins, his wife of eight years and the mother of his children, ages 4 and 8 months.

Stone said he shared an apartment with her in Cary while he also was living with Chaka Wilkins in Clayton.

In an interview this morning, Baker said that she knew Keron Wilkins had been married to Chaka Wilkins. But she said her husband gave her the impression the relationship was over.

"About four months after we were married, Chaka called me and told me he was already married," Baker said.

Baker said she was shocked at the phone call. She said she was shocked again to learn via news accounts this week about his marriage to Stone.