Lymon gets 38 years in fed prison
Suspect in officer’s death still faces trial for murder
Davon Lymon has been sentenced to serve 38 years in federal prison in addition to any sentence he may receive in state District Court in connection with the 2015 shooting death of Albuquerque police officer Daniel Webster.
A federal judge on Monday sentenced Lymon to 18 years on federal drug and firearms charges in a courtroom packed with police officers and supporters. That sentence will run consecutively to a 20-year sentence Lyman, 36, received April 5 for separate federal charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
“Your actions and your conduct display a total and blatant disregard for the well-being of our community,” U.S. District Judge Christina Armijo told Lymon moments before she handed down the new sentence.
“Mr. Lymon, we as a society are in the midst of an opioid epidemic,” Armijo said. Mothers, fathers and children suffered harmful consequences as a result of Lymon’s decision to sell heroin, she said.
Lymon was sentenced Monday on two federal charges of heroin trafficking and an additional charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Armijo offered Lymon an opportunity to speak before his sentencing. He answered, “No, thank you, your honor.” He appeared in court shackled and handcuffed in a blue shirt and khaki pants.
Lymon is charged with first-degree murder and other crimes in state District Court for allegedly shooting and killing Webster during a traffic stop on Oct. 21, 2015. That case is being prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office and is set for trial in March 2018.
Webster was shot multiple times after stopping a man driving a motorcycle near Central and Eubank. He died in a hospital about a week after the shooting.
Albuquerque Police Chief Gorden Eden said he was satisfied with the sentence and thanked Armijo on behalf of officers and Webster’s family.
Marc Robert, a federal public defender representing Lymon, urged Armijo to follow federal sentencing guide-
lines that would have limited Lymon’s total federal sentence to 28 years. “We recognize the passion surrounding this matter,” Robert said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jacob Wishard asked the judge for a much longer sentence. In an earlier motion, Wishard asked for a total federal sentence of 70 years, citing the nature of the crime and Lymon’s criminal history, which includes a conviction for voluntary manslaughter in the 2001 beating and shooting of a man, for which he was sentenced to 11½ years in prison.
Lymon “is deserving of a large upward variance” in the length of his sentence, Wishard told the judge Monday.
Armijo said she based the 18-year sentence on her judgment that Lymon is “a repeat and dangerous” offender who sold 153 grams of heroin to an undercover officer and “has no respect for the law.” Armijo also said Lymon used deception by feigning injury in the moments before he fatally shot Webster.