Comments on: Atmore Woman Gets Federal Prison Time For Meth Distribution

By: Passed off

Passed off — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 20:35:30 +0000

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

By: William 2

William 2 — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 17:50:49 +0000

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.

By: Alexander BregliaI

Alexander BregliaI — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:10:55 +0000

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.

By: Charlie Mike

Charlie Mike — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 03:06:52 +0000

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.

By: Jennifer rosales

Jennifer rosales — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 01:59:26 +0000

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.

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 20:35:43 +0000

@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.

By: William 2

William 2 — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 18:57:51 +0000

She wasn’t sentenced to time served, but the time she has already spent in jail will count towards her sentence!!!

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 18:51:46 +0000

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.

By: Cathy Cline

Cathy Cline — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 18:44:08 +0000

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?

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 17:08:32 +0000

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.