The violent run of a Roanoke drug dealer came to a close this week after a federal judge handed down a 165-month prison sentence tied to a masked robbery and a deadly shooting that unfolded months later.
Damon Tyler Mills, 29, pleaded guilty in April 2025 to Hobbs Act robbery and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
Prosecutors said Mills had been dealing marijuana across Roanoke from at least 2016 through 2019, moving drugs out of multiple locations and keeping firearms close at hand…