Lauryn Darnell.
Lauryn Darnell, one of four co-conspirators in the armed robbery and shooting of Carl Saint Felix on Palm Coast’s White Star Drive in 2018, pleaded today to conspiring to armed robbery and principal to armed robbery and will be sentenced to three years in prison followed by three years’ probation.
Circuit Judge Terence Perkins accepted the plea this afternoon at the Flagler County courthouse, with Darnell, who has been out on bond, standing next to her attorney, Josh Davis. Darnell will not be sentenced until June 8.
Her sentence is considerably more lenient than the maximum of 30 years she could have faced, because Perkins adjudicated her guilty as a “youthful offender,” since she did not have any prior felony convictions. “I do find that it would be appropriate to sentence her as a youthful offender as proposed in this plea agreement,” Perkins said.