Obama commutes life sentences of meth cook from Garland, crack dealer from Fort Worth Matt Peterson
Two local men will be freed from federal prison in October after being sentenced to life in prison for drug crimes. (Federal Bureau of Prisons)
Barack Obama has commuted more sentences that the last seven presidents combined. (AP file photo)
Drug dealers from Garland and Fort Worth who were sentenced to life in prison decades ago will be free men come fall.
President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 42 federal prisoners Friday as the White House intensifies its push to free nonviolent drug offenders from prisons.
The two North Texans granted clemency are Danny Ray White, 55, and Douglas Ray Dunkins Jr., 50. Both will have served at least two decades in prison when they’re released Oct. 1.
White, of Garland, was sentenced to hard time in 1996 for manufacturing or attempting to manufacture methamphetamine. Court records show he was also found guilty of possessing ethyl ether and a three-neck round-bottom flask, commonly used to cook speed.
Dunkins, of Fort Worth, received a mandatory life sentence in 1993 for participating in a crack cocaine-dealing conspiracy, court records show. Had the drug been powder cocaine, the mandatory sentence would have been 20 years.
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