2 headed to prison for selling cocaine in Jackson County
Published 1:00 pm Thursday, January 14, 2016
- Alabama man sentenced to 11 years in prison for Jackson County drug charges
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) — An Alabama man and a Mississippi woman have been sentenced in unrelated drug cases in Jackson County.
District Attorney Tony Lawrence tells The Sun Herald (http://bit.ly/1RnmdEH) 39-year-old Angelo Stevens, of Monroeville, Alabama, pleaded guilty to one count each of possession and transfer of cocaine.
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Circuit Judge Dale Harkey sentenced him to three years in prison, with credit for time served on the possession charge and eight-years on the transfer charge. The sentences will run consecutively, meaning Stevens will serve up to 11 years in prison.
Forty-one-year-old Leslie Richardson, of Moss Point, received the maximum sentence of eight years, with six years to serve and the remainder on post-release supervision. She had pleaded guilty to two counts of transfer of cocaine.
