A Central Florida drug dealer was sentenced for trafficking. The Merritt Island drug dealer who supplied users with fentanyl and cocaine until a sheriff’s SWAT team raided his mobile home was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
A Brevard County jury recently convicted 51-year-old Jeremy D. Priest of trafficking fentanyl and cocaine in 2021 based on evidence presented by Assistant State Attorneys Rebecca Price and Bernadette Serafinowicz. The prosecutors also convinced the jury that Priest should be sentenced as a Habitual Felony Offender, a status that allows the court to increase the maximum prison terms in Florida.
Circuit Judge Kathryn Speicher sentenced Jeremy Priest to 30 years in state prison followed by lifetime probation. He received credit for 1,341 days already served in jail awaiting trial…