Maynor Javier Yanes Basquez, 36, of Hickory, was sentenced to serve 57 to 75 years in prison following his conviction for multiple counts of trafficking methamphetamine and flee to elude arrest with a motor vehicle along with maintaining a vehicle for the sale of a controlled substance by a Catawba County jury on Thursday, April 10, 2025.
The Honorable Clifton H. Smith, Superior Court Judge from Catawba County, imposed terms of the active sentence after the jury returned its verdict to conclude a four-day trial in Catawba County Superior Court.
The defendant will serve his period of incarceration in custody of the North Carolina Division of Adult Corrections at the conclusion of a sentence of 67 to 81 years he is serving for convictions of attempted murder and multiple counts of discharging a weapon into an occupied dwelling in McDowell County…