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TYLER, Texas – The Eastern District of Texas U.S. Attorney Damien M. Diggs says the court sentenced the last defendant in an East Texas drug trafficking operation.
Darrell Lynell Horace, Jr., 29, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison today by U.S. District Judge Jeremy D. Kernodle.
According to information presented in Court, Horace and four others admitted to selling methamphetamine in Cherokee County, Texas. Horace also admitted to possessing a firearm as well as methamphetamine. One of Horace’s co-defendants, Pablo Antonio Sandoval, 24, of Bakersfield, California, admitted to transporting large quantities of methamphetamine from California-based suppliers to Jacksonville. Upon delivery, the methamphetamine was repackaged and sold by Hunter Chase Davlin, 27, of Jacksonville; Sissy Gail Parks, 39, of Bullard; and Joshua Ryan Starkey, 30, of Jacksonville.
The court sentenced Davlin to 108 months in prison on February 22, 2023; Parks to 70 months on December 14, 2022; Starkey got 130 months on November 4, 2022; and Sandoval received 170 months in prison on April 18, 2023.
Homeland Security Investigations investigated this case, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department, and the Jacksonville Police Department and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Lucas Machicek.