Local News in Brief : Drug Dealer’s Killer Gets 15-Year Term
An Arleta man was sentenced Monday to 15 years to life in state prison for the January, 1985, killing of a transient drug dealer whose body was found near Hansen Dam.
Van Nuys Superior Court Judge Richard G. Kolostian imposed the sentence on Darryl Wayne Perkins, 25, who pleaded guilty in August to second-degree murder. Perkins was accused of beating and strangling James Dale Wilson at another spot, then dumping the body near the dam.
Perkins’ primary income came from drug sales, and he had bought an ounce of marijuana from Wilson for $90 on the day of the killing, according to a probation report prepared for the sentencing. Wilson “was brutally bludgeoned to death over money,” the report concluded.
The two men worked together at a Panorama City stock inventory firm at the time of the killing, the report said. Wilson lived out of a truck, it said.
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