A string of felony convictions has led to a 47-year sentence for a Farmersville man found guilty of drug dealing, Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis said.

Mike Douglas Stoker, 44, was sentenced for possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine after a McKinney jury convicted him.

The case began in April and May of 2024 as a wave of thefts and burglaries struck Collin and Hunt Counties.

The DA said Investigator Tristan Varvil of the Collin County Sheriff’s Office linked them all to Stoker, who was caught in May while using a stolen truck to yank an ATM from a convenience store.

Stoker fled, but his accomplice was arrested. Based on information from the arrest, investigators immediately secured and executed a search warrant at Stoker’s residence.

Inside, investigators discovered over 70 grams of meth locked in a nightstand, along with scales, empty baggies, and more than 280 doses of meth, the district attorney said.

Willis said a forensic analysis of Stoker’s phone, conducted by Wylie Police Detective Chris Meehan, revealed dozens of drug sale conversations, further proving his role as a dealer.

After the jury found Stoker guilty, prosecutors introduced evidence of 17 prior convictions, including 11 felonies for drug trafficking and firearm offenses.

Willis said that since 2000, Stoker had been sent to state jail six times and served 21 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. In 2021, he was sentenced to four years in Hunt County but was on parole when he resumed committing crimes in Collin County last year.

Due to his prior prison sentences, Texas law mandated a minimum of 25 years and Judge Benjamin Smith sentenced Stoker to 47 years in prison.

“For decades, Mike Stoker has stolen, sold poison, and shattered lives across Collin, Dallas, Grayson, and Hunt Counties,” Willis said. “Prison didn’t stop him before, but now, behind bars, he can’t do it again. Let this be a reminder: Collin County delivers tough justice to career criminals who prey on our communities.”

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