99-year sentence for Texas man who led police on chase in meth case

A Texas man who led New Braunfels police on a high-speed chase when they tried to arrest him in a drug investigation has been sentenced to 99 years in prison.

A Comal County jury convicted Jeremy Dwayne Parker, 44, of Round Rock, on charges of possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine and evading arrest or detention. Visiting Judge Robert Updegrove presided over the trial and imposed the sentence.

New Braunfels police officers went to the 600 block of S. Walnut Avenue to arrest Parker, who was wanted on multiple felony warrants. As they tried to stop him in his vehicle, he drove away and headed north on Interstate 35, the Comal County District Attorney’s Office said…

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