Sentenced: Drug Dealer Falls Through Ceiling Before Arrest

[Sugar Cookie]

Terron Jerome Pearse, 31, was hiding from law enforcement until he fell through the ceiling of his house.

A Texarkana, Arkansas, police officer approached Pearse that day after seeing him walk from a Toyota Camry parked in his front yard.

Pearse refused to talk to the officer and allegedly ran into his house. Officers knew that a warrant on state drug charges was active in Miller County and that Pearse had a search waiver on file because he is currently on probation for drug offenses in Miller County.

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Inside the Camry police found more than a pound of methamphetamine. When officers were attempting to locate Pearse, he fell through the ceiling of the residence and was taken into custody.

Accused drug dealer falls through ceiling before arrest | Texarkana Today

A federal complaint unsealed last week alleges that a Texarkana, Arkansas, man was hiding from law enforcement until he fell through the ceiling of his house. Terron Jerome Pearse, 31, was arrested Oct. 12 at his home in the 1100 block of Cleveland Street, according to a criminal complaint filed...

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[Metalfan]

Arkansas engineering, sometimes it's just not that great.

 

[Sejanus]

Raining drug dealers.
In the Book of Revelations that comes before or after the beast with 7 heads and ten horns coming out of the sea?

 

[Symmachus]

For some people, the sky is the limit. For this guy, it was the ceiling.

 

[Old Man Metal]

That wasn't his Camry, and it definitely wasn't his meth. And the ownership of the ceiling is questionable, too.

"Hell, I'm not even really here, officer. This is somebody else right now."

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A Texarkana man who came into police custody in 2020 was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in federal prison for a drug crime.

Terron Jerome Pearse, 33, has been in custody since his arrest Oct. 12, 2020, by Texarkana, Arkansas, police. According to a criminal complaint filed in the Texarkana Division of the Western District of Arkansas, Pearse fell through the ceiling of his home on Cleveland Street while attempting to hide from officers in an attic or overhead crawl space.

Pearse appeared for sentencing before U.S. District Judge Susan Hickey in Texarkana. A sentencing memorandum filed in advance of the hearing by Assistant Federal Public Defender Alex Wynn describes Pearse as disadvantaged from an early age.

According to the memo, Pearse suffers from an attention disorder compounded by the trauma of being raised in poverty.

"They lived in a housing authority, and Mr. Pearse had early exposure to local gangs dealing narcotics right outside of his front door. Mr. Pearse recalls feeling like an outcast in school because he had to wear old clothes that had been handed down, and often had to wear the same clothes multiple days during the week," the complaint states.

The memo laments that Pearse fell into a life of crime after being "adopted" into the "drug culture" in his Texarkana neighborhood. Pearse began racking up convictions for state and federal drug offenses during adulthood.

Hickey sentenced Pearse to 168 months in federal prison with credit for time served in federal custody. Hickey recommended Pearse for intensive drug treatment and vocational training while in the Bureau of Prisons. After release from prison, Pearse will be supervised for three years.

Texarkana man sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for meth | Texarkana Gazette

TEXARKANA, Ark. -- A Texarkana man who came into police custody in 2020 was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in federal prison for a drug crime.

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