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Atmore Woman Gets Federal Prison Time For Meth Distribution
August 16, 2021
An Atmore woman has been sentenced to 38 months in federal prison for her participation in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine ice.
According to court documents, 34-year old Jordan Ashley Gabel distributed methamphetamine ice she obtained from various suppliers in Baldwin County.. Gabel was implicated in two traffic stops in which she was in possession of methamphetamine ice, both conducted by the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office.
United States District Court Judge William H. Steele imposed the 38-month sentence, which amounted to a sentence of time served after giving Gabel credit for her custodial time served prior to the imposition of sentence. Judge Steele further ordered that Gabel would also serve five years on supervised release following her imprisonment. As conditions of her supervision, Gabel will undergo testing and treatment for drug abuse and a mental health evaluation, and she will be subject to a search of her person and premises upon reasonable suspicion. No fine was imposed but Judge Steele ordered that Gabel pay $100 in special assessments.
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12 Responses to “Atmore Woman Gets Federal Prison Time For Meth Distribution”
38 months really this is why I get so angry at our judicial system. These dope dealers are destroying lives period. To me its murder because of the families it will destroy smh to the giloutine with them all that are peddling dope. I have been on both side of addiction and have been off it for over a year and every time my dealer hadn’t heard from me for a couple days he would call and push his product. If they want to feed thier family get a freaking real job
The DEA doesn’t want to end the aar on drugs or even slow the flow of drugs, they only care about their own job security and the power that comes with the job. DEA is part of the problem.
I am discouraged with this war on drugs policy. There is seemingly no end to the harm being done to our most vulnerable group which are our young teenagers and young adults are exposed to increasingly stronger opioids than just heroin. Synthetic fentanyl is being smuggled into the U.S. through a complete myriad array of different methods and the smugglers have no qualms absorbing the losses. There has to be a much more aggressive approach to harm reduction and especially either chemically treated detoxification over a period of time or replacement therapy using Methadone HCl. This last statement is without doubt the single most important part of a systematic and successful approach to slowing down the fatal overdose rate. The two impediments preventing chemically assisted opioid treatment and replacement therapy is the DEA obsession with diversion and the behavior of some patients.
She should be fined the amount it cost to house, feed, guard, and provide cable TV service to her. Taxpayers are always left holding the bag for these losers.
I have a friend doing 18 years on a conspiracy to distribute meth charge. After a fellow inmate was released and became an informant. She contacted my friend at a halfway house and asked her for her boyfriends number so she could score off of him. For the police. Because she had already had possession charges they sentenced her to 18 years in federal prison. I feel that they entrapped her. They put one girl in the position to commit a crime to charge the other people to commit crimes. Had they not contacted her, her crime would have never been committed. 18?years for conspiring to distribute drugs. I seen child molesters and rapists walk away with less than held this in prison time. And those people cannot be reformed they are sick and they don’t get better. Drug users can be rehabilitated and become productive members of society.
@William 2 – The article says she was sentenced to 38 months which “amounted to a sentence of time served.” Her federal case was filed against her in 2017, over 45 months ago, so apparently she’s spent at least 32 months of that time in jail, which covers the mandatory 85% of the 38 month federal sentence. She will proceed directly to supervised release.
She wasn’t sentenced to time served, but the time she has already spent in jail will count towards her sentence!!!
Ftr, I think if you’re caught holding it should be “possession” and selling “distribution”
“Conspiracy” sounds unfair.
Obviously, I’m not a legal expert but that’s my take.
I don’t want meth in the community but I’m glad she only got time served.
Remember when cops would say,” can’t arrest em’ til they do the crime” if someone was threatening someone else? Times change. Too many people are just talk no matter the age alot don’t plan on following through with it. No matter what the conspiring subject may be. I feel it’s wrong . Peer pressure is not just a kid issue. Your child tells her friends she is going to the party even though you said no, but then does not end up going. Do you punish her for conspiring to go?
Normally, a “conspiracy” charge ends up being way worse than a simple possession charge. It allows the prosecutors to link a whole bunch of cases, add all the drugs together to come up with some astronomical amount, and then use that amount for each individual on their PSR for sentencing. The Feds are the only ones that can do that, so that’s why the state kicks some of these low-level cases to them, so they can link them all together and hand out 20 year sentences for something that would only be a simple possession case at the state level. She’s really lucky that she only got sentenced to “time served” and did not get prison time.
Conspiracy is more serious charge than just the charge of actual possession.
I do not like the way these stories start with a charge that includes actual possession and end up with sentencing for “conspiracy to possess with intent to sell”