Boutte man found guilty of heroin distribution
After deliberating 40 minutes, a St. Charles Parish petit jury found Darrell Taylor guilty of distributing heroin.
Taylor was arrested after distributing one bindle or bundle with heroin during a drug transaction at his home, according to the St. Charles Parish District Attorney’s Office.
The Boutte man, who has a lengthy criminal history, will be sentenced by Judge M. Lauren Lemmon at 9 a.m. Sept. 12.
He faces a minimum 10-year sentence and maximum 50 years of hard labor with the Louisiana Department of Corrections, according to the District Attorney’s office.
The statute requires at least 10 years of the sentence be served without the benefit of probation or suspension of sentence.
The verdict followed a two-day trial, which was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorneys Julie Cullen and Rochelle Champagne Fahrig.
“The opioid epidemic and its consequences are serious issues in today’s society,” said District Attorney Joel T. Chaisson II.
“My office will continue robust prosecutions of those individuals who play a part in filling the streets of our parish with any quantity of these deadly drugs.”
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