Big Pine Key man has been sentenced to 24 months

 

A Big Pine Key man has been sentenced to 24 months in Florida State Prison in three separate drug cases.

 

On December 19, Monroe County Circuit Court Judge Mark Jones revoked James White’s probation and sentenced him to three concurrent 24-month terms. Earlier in the year, on June 28, Judge Jones had sentenced White, 53, to five years of drug offender probation with a residential drug treatment program.  White violated the terms of his probation by being unsuccessfully discharged from the residential drug treatment program and by moving from his residence without permission from his probation officer.

 

White was arrested three times in 2017 on drug charges involving heroin and cocaine. In two cases, one in January 2017 and one in February 2017, Monroe County Sheriff’s Office detectives utilized a confidential informant to conduct controlled drug transactions with White at White’s trailer on Big Pine Key.

 

In another case, also in February 2017, Sheriff’s Office detectives along with agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Department of Homeland Security executed a search warrant at White’s trailer. While doing so, White drove up and then put his truck in reverse when seeing the law-enforcement presence. DEA agents stopped his truck. When searched, White was found to possess heroin.

 

Assistant State Attorney Christine Poist represented the state.

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