GPAC offender receives sentence
By John Joyce
Published in News on September 22, 2015 1:46 PM
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Daryl Williams
A Goldsboro man sentenced to nine years in a state correctional facility on gun charges was warned by the city's Goldsboro Partners Against Crime program in August 2014 to knock off his criminal activity or go to jail.
He also failed to take advantage of the resources offered to him by community outlets, officials said.
Daryl Williams, 35, convicted on Aug. 12, 2015, of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and habitual felon, will now serve nine years in Maury Correctional Institution in Hookerton.
Williams was arrested in possession of a Hi-Point CF .380 pistol and a Century Arms AK rifle, according to a press release issued today by the Goldsboro Police Department.
Williams was notified in 2014 during a GPAC call-in -- a community and law enforcement-based combined effort during which violent offenders on probation and parole are brought to city hall and told to straighten up or face the consequences -- and put on a police watch list.
Capt. Theresa Chiero heads up the GPAC program and is attached to the state's Violent Crimes Task Force. She adds each probationer or parolee notified by GPAC to a database that records any future interaction with law enforcement after notification. Community resources such as Rebuilding Broken Places offer the offenders help with getting their GED or high school diploma, finding work, assistance with transportation or child care and they offer substance abuse counseling and medical and mental health referrals.
"He failed to take advantage of the resources offered to him and continued his criminal ways," Ms. Chiero said in the press release.
She explained that, once notified, the offenders are tracked in a series of computer-based databases.
"I have them in a system, and they're in several other systems," she said. She said she also stays in close contact with the local district attorney's office and the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Since GPAC began in 2012, at least three offenders notified by the program have been sentenced in federal cases and several more have or soon will face time in state prisons.
Ms. Chiero said the results of the police department, the city and community coming together to curtail violent crime are increasingly evident with each conviction.
"It's showing that it is working," she said.