Judge Robin Carroll’s 13th Circuit, Division 4 court met on Thursday, May 27, for a plea docket; the session resulted in resolutions for several ongoing cases.
Deundrae Devon Wilson, 21, of El Dorado, accepted a plea deal in which he pleaded guilty to charges in three separate cases.
Wilson pleaded guilty to first-degree terroristic threatening, a charge of robbery amended from aggravated residential burglary and a second charge of robbery amended from aggravated robbery.
Wilson was sentenced to five years suspended imposition of sentence on the terroristic threatening charge, 10 years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections and 10 years suspended imposition of sentence on the first robbery charge and 10 years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections and 10 years suspended imposition of sentence on the second robbery charge, with the sentences to run consecutively.
Suspended imposition of sentence is similar to probation; however, if a person fails to meet the requirements of the SIS, a judge can revoke the SIS and require the defendant to serve the remainder of the sentence in jail or prison.
Court documents say Wilson made threatening statements toward multiple people, including police officers, during a domestic disturbance call in March 2020.
Wilson, the document states, told a person on the scene that “his brothers were on the way… and were going to ‘handle this,’” and “added that he would come back ‘locked and loaded’ when officers ‘least expected it.’”
An affidavit filed in the first robbery case alleges that Wilson and a minor approached a man in July 2020 who was working near his vehicle in southeastern El Dorado, produced a handgun and ordered the victim to empty his pockets. Wilson’s participation in the robbery was later verified by the victim.
A probable cause affidavit in the second robbery case states that Wilson, again accompanied by a minor, entered a residence in southeastern El Dorado in July 2020.
The document states that the victim, who initially was asleep in his bedroom, “heard a rumbling noise inside his living room” and went to investigate. The victim found Wilson and the accomplice in his living room, where one of the two allegedly aimed a handgun at him. The victim then retreated and called 911.
According to the affidavit, Wilson later “confessed that he and [the minor] were the subjects who went inside [the victim’s] residence and attempted to rob him.”
Next on the docket was Randy Lamarquez Miller, 21, El Dorado, who pleaded guilty to charges of possession of a firearm by a certain person and theft of a firearm less than $2,500, as well as a habitual offender enhancement.
Miller was sentenced to five years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections and five years suspended imposition of sentence, along with an order to pay court costs and attorney fees.
A probable cause affidavit states that a handgun reported stolen in 2019 was found in Miller’s residence when officers were serving an active warrant on Miller; also found was an “AR pistol in a closet just feet from the couch where the stolen handgun was found” in May 2020, according to the court records.
Dustin Scott, 25, El Dorado, pleaded guilty to breaking or entering and theft of property, greater than $1,000, less than $5,000.
Scott was sentenced to five years in the Arkansas Department of Correction and ordered to pay restitution to the victim in the amount of $2,741.07, along with court costs, attorney fees and jail booking fees.
Scott also pleaded true to a probation revocation charge and received the same jail sentence, to run concurrent with the initial sentence.
A probable cause affidavit was unavailable for Scott’s case in online court records.