VENTURA : 3 Men Sentenced for Selling Crack

A Ventura County Superior Court judge sentenced three men to prison Tuesday for selling crack cocaine from a dilapidated house in west Ventura.

Alonzo Haynes, 38, was sentenced to five years for maintaining a house for illicit narcotics sales and selling crack cocaine; Duchon Fields, 23, was sentenced to five years and four months for two counts of selling crack cocaine; and Dexter Williams, 23, received a five-year sentence for one count of selling crack cocaine.

But Judge Charles R. McGrath suspended sentencing until all three men undergo psychological testing. If the tests find that they are drug addicts, the men could serve their time undergoing drug treatment at the California Rehabilitation Center, Deputy Dist. Atty. Jimmie Grunert said.

Haynes will also be examined by a court-appointed psychiatrist to determine whether his combat duty in Vietnam from 1970 to 1971 caused post-traumatic stress disorder, Grunert said. If Haynes is found to be suffering from the combat-related illness, he could be sentenced to federal prison instead of state prison, Grunert said.

The men were arrested in a Feb. 26 raid on the house at 948 Olive St. by SWAT teams from the Ventura Police Department and the county Sheriff’s Department.