TEXARKANA, Texas -A teen who is suing the Texarkana Texas Police Department for an eye injury caused by a pepper spray gun was sentenced Wednesday to 16 months in a state jail in an unrelated case involving a stolen gun.
DaQuan Queshead Huey, 18, appeared Wednesday before 5th District Judge Bill Miller for a hearing on a motion to revoke a five-year probation he was serving for theft of a firearm. Huey was placed on probation in March 2019 as part of a plea agreement stemming from an October 2018 arrest.
Huey, who was then 17, had two guns in his pants when searched and one of them had been reported stolen by a retired police detective. A motion to revoke Huey's probation was filed following his arrest in October 2019 by police in Texarkana, Arkansas, in connection with an alleged home invasion that involved gunplay. Huey is charged with aggravated residential burglary, eight counts of terroristic acts, three counts of breaking or entering involving vehicles and theft of a firearm in Miller County, Arkansas
That arrests and administrative violations of probation including failure to report to his probation officer, failing to complete community service restitution hours and failure to remit court ordered fees. Huey pleaded true to the administrative violations only at Wednesday's hearing and was sentenced to 16 months in a state jail as part of a plea bargain negotiated by Assistant District Attorney Katie Carter and Huey's lawyer, Justin Miller of Dallas.
The charges against Huey in Miller County remain pending as does a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest in Bowie County Court at Law. That case was set for trial Oct. 29, 2019, but was put on hold because Huey was in the Miller County jail.
Huey is currently suing the Texarkana Texas Police Department for an injury to his eye that occurred Jan. 27, 2019. Police were called to the Brookwood Drive area regarding large crowds of people fighting outdoors around 12:30 p.m. Huey claims he was trying to quell the disturbance and is described in federal court documents by his lawyers as a "peacemaker."
TTPD's court filings allege Huey was an instigator who put himself in extremely close proximity to a pepper spray gun as it was deployed by Texarkana, Texas, police officer and that he was advancing toward a woman with a baseball bat shortly before his eye was injured.
Huey's lawyer in the civil case filed a motion asking that it be halted until his criminal charges are disposed. U.S. District Judge Robert Schroeder III granted the motion and the case remains on hold.