RICHLAND CO. – An interesting crossover of sorts has developed between a new case of meth possession and the situation of a man in Hamilton County who’s made a habit of hanging out with the wrong people…and manages to get out of scrapes with the law unscathed.
And while some might consider the connection between the two a stretch, those who’ve followed the criminal antics of St. Francisville chief of police Billy Darnell’s illegitimate offspring, dope slinging in Richland County, and the dangers to the general public of the miscreant Earp/Trout bunch will be able to recognize when there’s a significant ripple in the pond that holds all of them.
The matter actually started nearly a year ago, when that miscreant bunch, the Earps, got caught up in massive theft charges in Hamilton County, specifically, Broughton. The theft charges involved four-wheelers and weapons, and were uncovered when one of the more dimwitted among them, Daniel Royse, 25, of Broughton, was busted on conservation violations after he was caught illegally taking deer. Royse was convicted in a plea agreement and was shipped off to DOC earlier this year.
The subsequent investigation turned up Flavius Doug Earp, 28, of Olney, allegedly assisting Royse (who is a pseudo-relative of the Earps, having been breeding with an Earp/Trout girl, Breanna) in his criminal endeavors. Flav (or, as he prefers to be called, Doug) has somehow managed to obtain enough money to retain Bryan Drew out of Franklin County to represent his interests in court and that case in Hamilton has yet to work its way much past pretrial hearings.
Also hemmed up with the two, however, was an Earp hanger-on, Jimmy Williams, also 28 and also of Olney.
It was alleged at the time that Williams helped cover up Royse’s and Earp’s alleged misdeeds, and was subsequently charged not only with the same Possession of a Stolen Vehicle count the other two were (regarding the stolen four-wheeler) but also with an obstruction charge.
Miraculously, Williams’ felony counts were dismissed in mid-October after the January 2015 incident, this after he received a simple traffic ticket for Failure to Obey a Police Officer. He pled to the ticket and the felonies were dismissed, evidently meaning that it was worth it to Hamilton County authorities for Williams to pay fines and fees of $1,873 in lieu of taking the county through an expensive jury trial, in this day and age of people insisting that justice can, indeed, be bought.
Whether Williams’ momma will be so successful, however, might be another story.
The juxtaposition of this piece is the entry into the mix of Williams’ haggard-looking mother, Carolyn S. Williams, who had the grave misfortune to also have bred, a couple of decades ago, with the repugnant St. Francisville “police chief” Billy “PeeWee” Darnell.
Their offspring wasn’t Jimmy Williams; it was instead a younger larva, the equally-repugnant Travis Darnell, who has himself spent a negligible amount of time behind bars.
Up to recently, Carolyn Williams, who will be 51 in mid-January but appears to have reached that age more than a decade ago, was relatively crime-record free (she lucked out in 2002 when a Possession of a Controlled Substance charge was dismissed by the equally-pudgy Lisa Kaye DeSelms).
That classification came to an end on December 7, however, when Williams was charged with Possession of Meth less than 5 grams in Richland County.
Williams, it was pointed out to Disclosure by a staffer a few years back, lives in a house that had been known throughout the meth community as a “drive-thru” house, meaning that a person interested in making a purchase of meth could literally drive up to the house and, often without getting out of the car, could make a buy.
Research Disclosure staff did into the matter indicated that at the time (2011), Richland County drug cops were refusing to list the address of that particular house, 102 North Mulberry in the village of Calhoun, when they made meth busts, instead preferring to call it a “designated place” somewhere in Richland County. This, Disclosure was advised, had less to do with the investigators in the sheriff’s department, and more with then-prosecutor David Hyde, who was doing his best to keep publicly-known meth locations from being disclosed in print. The reason why he did this has never been discovered.
As it turns out, Carolyn Williams’ meth bust occurred at 2:44 a.m. at that specific residence….which is listed on her driver’s license as her own.
The charge wasn’t filed until a week later, and of course, little Jimmy Williams, of his East York address in Olney, had already by that time posted the $2,000 case bond for his mom. She’s set for a first court hearing on the matter Jan. 12.
The inference, of course, is what’s been going on for a number of years in Richland, which spreads out to Lawrence (with the Darnell contingent) and inexplicably to Hamilton (with the Earp/Trout contingent): That someone is facilitating the trafficking of illegal substances through the area, and because of the special favor the entire bunch enjoyed throughout the years of the David Hyde administration, who wouldn’t prosecute an Earp if he were being tortured into doing it, it was indeed flowing, if for no reason other than the Earp/Trout bunch was acting as muscle for the convicted dope users and alleged movers in the area, including “Lil Nate” Turrentine and his breeder, Jessica Boyd, both of whom are currently sitting in DOC on dope convictions.
Whether this “favor” has been lost, now that Hyde is no longer in office and a prosecutor who isn’t afraid of the local gangs such as the Earp/Trout bunch, Brad Vaughn, is handling things, remains to be seen. What the problem is in Hamilton is largely unknown. However, a strong message might be sent to these ones who’ve been allowed to run amok for so long by do-nothing prosecutors, as has been started with the sentencing of the Turrentine/Boyd combine, so maybe Williams will be the next link in the chain…especially if the Mulberry Street location really was a “designated place” where the meth-slingers could operate with impunity.