A Gore man was sentenced in U.S. District Court to two years in prison after violating conditions of his parole.
Jerry Duane Spears, 57, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Frank H. Seay, U.S. Attorney Sheldon J. Sperling announced May 19.
Sperling said Spears' parole violation was discovered during a traffic stop in Sequoyah County by an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper in which Spears was found to be in possession of a firearm and illegal drugs, which violated two mandatory conditions of his parole.
On December 18, 2005, Spears also possessed methamphetamine and was charged in Sequoyah County District Court with possession of methamphetamine, Sperling said. On March 16, during a routine home visit, Spears admitted to using methamphetamine, and on April 8 Spears was discovered carrying a loaded .44 caliber pistol in his pocket.
"The defendant received the maximum sentence allowable for violating the conditions of his supervised release," Sperling noted. "He had originally been convicted 15 years ago for drug conspiracy and firearms charges. The original charges arose when federal agents raided the methamphetamine drug operation at a cabin in the Talihina Mountains. The federal agents were fired upon by three of the four occupants of the remote cabin - the sight of an ongoing methamphetamine operation."
During that incident Spears, who had been armed with what turned out to be an AR-15, confronted the Deputy U.S. Marshal, a special agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration, and a special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Sperling said.
"After Spears was taken into custody, co-defendants Clay Dalton Johnson, Harold Onee Behrens, and Edward Dale Summerlin, fired an AK-47, a MAC-11, and a .30 carbine rifle at the agents. Johnson, Behrens, and Summerlin ran into the woods, but were all arrested within 24 hours," Sperling said.
