While their sister’s killer awaits trial next year in Cochise County, two California men will be sentenced in connection to their role in removing cash, weapons, and “copious amounts of drugs” from the sister’s house in Sierra Vista the day after she died.
DJ Leeroyce Garcia and his brother Roger Carlos Garcia have quietly entered into plea deals stemming from their arrest on July 14 after a Sierra Vista police officer spotted them loading items from the home of Honeylynne Garcia and her boyfriend Landan James Klein into a vehicle.
Klein and Honeylynne Garcia, both 25, were shot to death July 13 outside a Sierra Vista restaurant in what investigators say was a dispute about a drug debt. Their home was under surveillance while a detective was attempting to obtain a search warrant as part of the murder investigation.
As the surveillance was happening, two vehicles with California license plates pulled up to the house. The Garcia brothers were then observed removing items from the residence and placing them in one of the vehicles which belonged to their mother.
A subsequent search of the vehicle revealed several firearms, including a Ruger 556 rifle, a Zastava 7.62 rifle, a Hi-Point .380 handgun, and a Glock19 9mm handgun. Detectives also recovered a Taser, 13 boxes of various ammunition, a scale, one pound of illegal Psilocybin mushrooms, 251 THC cartridges, nearly $2,000 cash, and Honeylynne’s passport and birth certificate.
On Friday, DJ Garcia is scheduled to be sentenced to a four-year term of standard probation after pleading guilty to possession of a dangerous drug (the mushrooms) and possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a drug offense. The probation can be served in California, according to court documents.
A presentence report notes DJ Garcia told a probation officer that the family learned of Honeylynne’s murder on July 13, after which they “drove straight to Arizona.” The brothers then got into their sister’s house and started to load boxes and bags in the car.
Later this month Roger Garcia is scheduled to be sentenced following his plea deal involving the same two charges but a different set of pleas.
Court records show Roger Garcia is also guaranteed a four-year term of supervised probation after he pleaded guilty to the possession of mushrooms and no contest to the firearms charge. A no contest plea means the defendant accepts the criminal conviction but does not make an admission of guilt.
The Cochise County Attorney’s Office included a provision in both plea deals that failure to appear for sentencing will void the probation guarantee. Instead, a minimum 2.5-year prison term will be imposed.
Devon Nathaniel Neff remains in the Cochise County jail without bond while he awaits trial next year for the murder of Klein and Honeylynne Garcia. The three were allegedly involved in illegal drug activity and Neff reportedly owed Klein money.
Security footage from the restaurant shows Klein leaned into the driver’s window of Neff’s vehicle and punched Neff, 21, in the face several times. Neff then pointed a gun out the window and shot Klein before exiting the vehicle and fatally shooting Honeylynne Garcia in the head as she sat in the passenger seat of Klein’s car.
The security footage shows Neff then drove away from the scene. He later self-surrendered to police. A Nov. 16 pretrial conference is scheduled in his case, but no trial date has been announced. His speedy trial deadline is late 2022.
