TYLER \u2014 A 50-year-old Athens man has been sentenced to federal prison for firearms violations. Frankie Darrell Durant pleaded guilty on January 8, 2013, to being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison Thursday in Tyler by U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis. According to officials, on July 26, 2011, three firearms were located in a storage room in Smith County which was being rented by Durant. Further investigation revealed Durant was a convicted felon, having been previously been found guilty of possession of a controlled substance. As a convicted felon, Durant is prohibited by federal law from owning or possessing firearms or ammunition. Durant was indicted by a federal grand jury on September 12, 2012. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TYLER \u2014 A 50-year-old Athens man has been sentenced to federal prison for firearms violations. Frankie Darrell Durant pleaded guilty on January 8, 2013, to being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison Thursday in Tyler by U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis. According to officials, … Continue reading Henderson County Felon Sentenced for Federal Firearms Violations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 23:25:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245621"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245721,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245621\/revisions\/245721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}