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GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS MAN SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS IN
FEDERAL PRISON FOR RECEIVING A GUN WHILE ON STATE PROBATION

Anthony Dwyane Stoker, of Grand Prairie, Texas, was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Dallas to five years in prison for receiving a firearm while serving a term of state deferred probation, announced U.S. Attorney Richard B. Roper of the Northern District of Texas. Stoker, 22, pled guilty in December 2006, to a one-count indictment and was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to the maximum statutory punishment permitted by federal law.

While patrolling the city on March 1, 2006, an officer with the Grand Prairie Police Department saw Stoker driving in a residential area. The officer, who knew that Stoker was wanted for a state drug offense, activated the lights on his patrol car and began to pursue Stoker. However, Stoker fled, first in his vehicle, and then on foot. When he was apprehended by police officers, Stoker was holding two firearms, one in each hand. One of the firearms had been stolen in January 2006. Stoker’s sentence was enhanced because he possessed the firearms in connection with the felony offenses of evading arrest and possessing a controlled substance.

At the time of his arrest, Stoker was serving a term of state deferred probation for his December 2003 arrest for unlawful possession with intent to deliver cocaine. His state probation was revoked in July 2006, and he was sentenced to seven years in prison. Because of his lengthy history of arrests and convictions in Grand Prairie, and the extreme danger caused by his flight from Grand Prairie officers, Judge Boyle ordered that his federal sentence begin after he finishes serving his state prison sentence.

The case was adopted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF) and prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office under the nationwide Project Safe Neighborhoods program, which targets gun crime. U.S. Attorney Roper praised the investigative efforts of the ATF and the Grand Prairie Police Department. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jordan Konig.

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