Darby is denied parole

MONTGOMERY — A man serving a 10-year sentence on Franklin County assault convictions was denied parole on June 25, according to records from the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles.

The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles held a hearing last week for Troy Lamar Darby, 42.

Darby has served 2 years and 2 months of a 10-year sentence on convictions of second-degree assault, offenses against a person and possession of a pistol after convictionviolence, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections.

He is in the Limestone Correctional Center. The offenses against a person conviction is connected to an incident in which he detained a victim and strangled and attempted to suffocate the victim, according to his indictment. Darby had a relationship as the victim’s boyfriend. The possession of a pistol after convictionviolence charge is from him placing a gun to the victim’s head and threatening to “put her in the ground,” the indictment states.

The assault convictions is connected to actions to took against an officer while in jail, records state. He pleaded guilty to that charge.

Court records state that the plea agreement included dropping charges of unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia, resisting arrest, attempted first-degree theft of property, third-degree burglary, first-degree criminal mischief, attempting to disarm a law enforcement officer and three additional charges of second- degree assault.

Darby also has a previous second-degree assault conviction and served 2 years, 3 months and 24 days of a 5-year sentence in that case.