Sentences issued in three district court cases

A Temple woman was sentenced in a Donley County felony case when the district court met via Zoom on July 17.

District Attorney Luke Inman, along with Assistant District Attorney Harley Caudle, prosecuted the case for the State of Texas, with the Honorable Judge Dale Rabe, Jr., presiding from the bench.

Lanette Dichell Porter, 40, from Temple, Texas, was sentenced to seven years in prison for the third degree felony offense of assault on a public servant. Porter was arrested for the offense in Donley County on April 18, 2024.

Porter was originally placed on ten years probation on May 13, 2024.

On March 11, the State filed its motion requesting the court to revoke Porter’s probation, alleging 14 violations of her conditions of probation. Porter pleaded true to the violations of her community supervision.

Porter was also ordered to pay the remaining $500 fine and $290 court costs.

Two other Donley County cases were adjudicated when the court met in Childress on June 26, again with Inman and Caudle prosecuting and Judge Rabe presiding.

John Robert McAllister, 43, from Memphis, Texas, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the second degree felony offense of fraudulent use or possession of identifying information, enhanced to a first degree felony.

McAllister was arrested in Donley County by Sheriff Butch Blackburn on October 6, 2024, and was indicted by a Donley County Grand Jury on January 27.

McAllister was also ordered to pay $290 in court costs.

Cruz Viedo Gonzalez, 31, from Santa Ana, Calif., was sentenced to three years in prison for the third degree felony offense of evading arrest with a motor vehicle.

Gonzalez was arrested in Donley County by DPS Trooper Nathan Bozeman on December 29, 2024, and was indicted by a Donley County Grand Jury on March 24.

Gonzalez was also ordered to pay $305 in court costs.