Marvin D. Haverstick, 51, of Cedar Hill, a persistent offender, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for drug trafficking, court documents show.
On Jan. 18, 2015, a Jefferson County deputy went to a home in the 8600 block of Wilbert Lane in Cedar Hill and found items there commonly used to make methamphetamine. In addition, after a deputy spotted Haverstick run from an outbuilding at the home and tried to take him into custody, Haverstick resisted, the probable-cause statement said.
The deputy repeatedly used pepper spray on Haverstick, but he refused to lay on the ground and tried to strike the deputy. After two other deputies responded, eventually they were able to subdue him and put him in handcuffs, the statement said.
Five days later, on Jan. 23, 2015, a deputy spotted Haverstick driving at Cedar Hill Road and Graham Road in Cedar Hill and pulled him over for committing traffic violations. Haverstick pulled into a nearby parking lot at Zeman Tire Town on Veterans Boulevard and ran into the business. A short time later, though, Haverstick exited the business and was taken into custody. He had been driving with a revoked license, the report said.
Haverstick pleaded guilty to one count of felony first-degree drug trafficking for the Jan. 18, 2015, incident and to one count of felony driving while revoked for the Jan. 23, 2015, incident, and on Feb. 2, Jefferson County Div. 2 Circuit Judge Darrell Missey sentenced him to 15 years for the trafficking charge and three years for driving while revoked. However, the two terms are to be served concurrently, or at the same time, according to court records.
Jefferson County assistant prosecuting attorney Trisha C. Stefanski handled the cases.
Another defendant, Terry C. McDowell, 31, of Cedar Hill, was charged with felony first-degree drug trafficking in connection with the Jan. 18, 2015, case, and after pleading guilty, he was sentenced in January 2016 to 10 years in prison. But the sentence was suspended, and he got five years’ probation, court papers show.
Haverstick’s 15-year term also is to be served concurrent with a 13-year term, five seven-year terms, seven four-year terms and another three-year term he previously got following felony charges and probation violations.
He got 13 years for felony attempting to make meth stemming from a March 2012 incident in Jefferson County.
The seven-year terms are for felony possession of controlled substance charges connected to events that occurred between June 2004 and October 2006, all in Jefferson County.
All the four-year terms and the other three-year term are for felony driving while revoked or suspended stemming from events that happened between April 2004 and January 2012 in Jefferson County
Haverstick previously served time in prison for felony DWI - persistent offender and second-degree assault while operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated tied to a June 2001 incident in Jefferson County, as well as for driving with a suspended license connected to an October 2008 incident in Jefferson County.
He currently is in the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre.