An Olney man pleaded guilty to four charges this week and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Derrick Rockenbaugh, 37, was involved in a foot pursuit in April which led to a lockdown of Olney ISD. Rockenbaugh accepted a plea Tuesday, Aug. 22 from 90th Judicial District Attorney Dee Peavy and Assistant District Attorney Phillip Gregory. He was sentenced to 25 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institution Division (TDCJ-CID), with 400 days served in the Young County Jail.
Tue, 08/03/2021 - 6:43pm
By:
Thomas Wallner
The 90th Judicial District Attorney Dee Peavy and Assistant District Attorney Phillip Gregory spoke regarding their positions and what their office does year-round and through the COVID-19 pandemic last Tuesday. The office encompasses Stephens and Young Counties.
The DA’s office processes felony criminal prosecutions instead of misdemeanor cases which are handled in Stephens County by Stephens County Judge Michael Roach.
“Those cases only carry time in the county jail, whereas felony offenses, they are more serious and they carry time in the state penitentiary,” Peavy said.
The DA said the penitentiary system changed in 1993 when they made a new classification of felony because criminal drug offenses or felony drug offenses were being so aggressively prosecuted that they wanted a whole different system for these lower-grade felonies.