LaBelle (November 24, 2021) – Jeffrey Beard, of Hendry County, was adjudicated guilty and sentenced to 10 years in prison, with 3 years as a minimum-mandatory prison term, for crimes related to dealing drugs.
Beard was sentenced as a Habitual Felony Offender.
The defendant sold crack cocaine to a confidential informant from his Hendry County home on September 3, 2019 and two separate times on December 4, 2019. All of the sales were within 1,000 feet of a public park.
On December 13, 2019 the Hendry County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant on the home and found firearm ammunition, drugs, including cocaine, and drug paraphernalia. Beard was then arrested on these four cases.
Beard was sentenced to 10 years in prison for Sale of a Controlled Substance Within 1,000 ft. of a Public Park and had his driver’s license suspended. In his second case, he was also sentenced to 10 years on that same charge. In his third case he was sentenced to 10 years for a third count of Sale of a Controlled Substance Within 1,000 ft. of a Public Park and one count of Own, Lease or Rent of a Place with Knowledge of Trafficking, Sale or Manufacture of a Controlled Substance. In his fourth case, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for two counts of Possession of a Controlled Substance, and one count each of Possession of Cocaine, Possession of Paraphernalia, and Possession of Ammunition by a Convicted Felon.
All of these crimes occurred while Beard was on felony probation in Hendry County. He was sentenced to 5 years in prison, the maximum sentence, for violating his probation. All of the sentences are to be served concurrently.
Assistant State Attorney Clark Cary prosecuted the cases.
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