OFFICE OF THE STATE ATTORNEY

KEY WEST, March 4, 2019 – A Miami-Dade County man has been sentenced to 59.85 months in Florida State Prison for violating his probation imposed in past Florida Keys drug cases.

On February 22, James Caldwell, 38, admitted to several probation violations before Monroe County Circuit Court Judge Mark Jones, who handed down the sentence. Assistant State Attorney Patrick Flanigan represented the state.

Caldwell was released from prison in September 2017 after serving time on convictions of sale of cocaine and sale of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a public park. Both offenses occurred in Key West in 2013. He was sentenced on those charges in December 2014. He originally pleaded no contest. His original sentence required 48 months of probation following his release from prison.

Caldwell was arrested in Miami-Dade on December 18, 2017, for new offenses of sale of cocaine and one each of battery and possession of marijuana. Those arrests violated probation in the Monroe County cases.

In addition to his two Monroe County prison sentences, Caldwell has been in prison four other times for crimes committed in Miami-Dade, including sale of cocaine, robbery and grand theft. He also has served terms of probation for grand theft auto, grand theft, burglary of an occupied structure, sale of cocaine, robbery and resisting arrest.

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