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Escambia Man Convicted Of Drug Trafficking Faces Up To 70 Years In Prison
March 13, 2021
An Escambia County man is facing up to 70 years in prison after being convicted on multiple drug charges.
Jerrel Lamar Leverette, 38, was convicted of trafficking in meth (200 or grams or more), trafficking in heroin (28 grams or more but less than 30 kilograms), possession of a controlled substance (fentanyl), possession of a controlled substance (cocaine) and possession of drug paraphernalia.
He will be sentenced on April 1. He faces up to 70 years in prison with a 25-year, minimum-mandatory prison sentence on the trafficking in heroin charge and a 15-year, minimum-mandatory prison sentence on the meth trafficking charge.
On October 30, 2018, the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant at Leverette’s residence in the 800 block of Madison Drive. Deputies located approximately 7.5 pounds of methamphetamine along with a large amount of heroin mixed with fentanyl and a quantity of cocaine. The drugs were located hidden in the attic access in Leverette’s bedroom’s master bathroom. Leverette’s cell phone was obtained and a download revealed incriminating text messages regarding the controlled substances.
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11 Responses to “Escambia Man Convicted Of Drug Trafficking Faces Up To 70 Years In Prison”
REGARDING:
“A vast percentage uses alcohol with a relatively low percentage of negative consequence. In moderation (as the vast majority use it), alcohol has little risk”
But that low percentage is still a big number.
One in eight American adults, or 12.7 percent of the U.S. population, now meets diagnostic criteria for alcohol use disorder (another name for the rose called alcoholism). So yes, some 7 out of 8 might be called winners in eight cylinder Russian Roulette.
The players don’t decide to be winners or losers. They choose to play without knowing which they will be. (Those who sit the game out always win.)
Alcoholic liver disease deaths: 24,110 in America in 2019 according to the CDC. These are not just the losers who became alcoholics, many were killed by lower consumption but still consumption.
Alcohol-induced deaths, excluding accidents and homicides: 39,043 in 2019 — CDC In 2016, 10,497 people died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes. This is not just those who drink — often THEY survive; it includes others killed by their actions. Thousands more suffer from injuries due to intoxicated drivers.
Close to 70 percent of alcohol-related violent acts occur in the home — drinkers usually shoot or beat inside their own family if at all (of the around 10 million total per year).
The National Institutes of Health reports alcohol misuse cost the United States $249.0 billion in 2010 — but it’s crass to talk of money.
Yes, Jerrel Lamar Leverette’s drugs harm people, but don’t fool yourself. Alcohol is not really a harmless consumer product either.
David for healthy children
it don’t matter he goes away and the tax payer still has to pay
William, there are so many fallacies with your premise it’s difficult to know where to start. A relatively small percentage of the population uses hard “street drugs” with a disproportionately large percentage of trauma, life-alteration and negative consequence. A vast percentage uses alcohol with a relatively low percentage of negative consequence. In moderation (as the vast majority use it), alcohol has little risk. Even in relative moderation, crystal meth and heroin have a high risk of catastrophic consequences. They are not the same. Your comparison is like saying that eating fast food and drinking sodas over a long period of time is the same as drinking Drano…poison is poison. Ridiculous.
@JTV, poison is poison, it doesn’t matter if it’s a “LEGAL” poison, except to a HYPOCRITE!!! There are more people killed each year by alcohol and tobacco than street dope and that’s a cold hard FACT!!! Please!!! Explain how this fact makes me a special kind of stupid? Seems to me, if you can’t see that alcohol and tobacco are just as, if not more dangerous, than any street drug, then it’s you that is stupid!!!
@William Lingo, really? You really are a special kind of stupid.
@Joe & RC. I guess every bar owner and store owner should be in prison as well for being poison peddlers or do you think it’s ok to sell only legalized poison?
He’ll get at least 25 minimum mandatory for trafficking.
he will be out in 5.
Just have a public hanging and get it over with. He is a scourge on the earth. Like Joe said-he’s a poison peddler with no regard for humanity. Deal with him and move on.
He will get probation!!!!
Poison peddler, no telling the countless lives he has destroyed, and the misery he has inflicted. Judge give him the 70 years so he will never harm another human being.