Arkansas Man Sentenced for Not Reporting Drug Trafficking

TEXARKANA – A 41-year-old Pine Bluff, Arkansas, man has been sentenced to federal prison for failing to report a drug trafficking crime in East Texas. Clifford Chambers pleaded guilty last August to misprision of a felony. He was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison yesterday by U.S. District Judge David Folsom.

According to information presented in court, on December 7, 2009, law enforcement officers in the Winfield area stopped a white Lexus on Interstate 30 that was found to be carrying approximately two kilograms of cocaine. Further investigation revealed that another vehicle, a Chevrolet Impala, was traveling with the Lexus as the “lead car.” Officers pulled over the Impala, driven by Chambers, after it passed their location with the Lexus. Chambers had already been pulled over earlier that day in Royse City, and at that time knew there was a controlled substance in the Lexus and failed to disclose the crime.