Moore gets 9 more months
By Jane Beathard
Staff Writer
A London man already serving a year in prison for a theft-related conviction will spend an additional nine months behind bars for selling heroin last summer.
Weston L. Moore, 27, pleaded guilty on Monday in Madison County Common Pleas Court to trafficking heroin on June 1 and June 6. Additional trafficking charges were dismissed by the prosecutor as part of a plea bargain. That arrangement included an agreed nine-month prison sentence.
Last month, Moore was sentenced to a year in prison after violating terms of his community control for a series of 2011 metal thefts. He was due for release on Sept. 4, 2012. That date is now bumped to June 4, 2013. Judge Robert D. Nichols said Ohio law requires a consecutive sentence for the drug convictions.
Moore was indicted by the county grand jury in September, following a lengthy undercover drug investigation by the London Police Department and the Madison County Sheriff’s Office.
In other common pleas court action on Monday:
• Buffie Renee Browning, 40, of London, pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property between Feb. 13 and March 17. She faces up to 18 months in prison and a $5,000 fine for the fourth-degree felony conviction. However, current sentencing guidelines will likely place Browning on community control.
Nichols ordered a short pre-sentence investigation in the case and set sentencing for Dec. 13.
• Michelle Stevens, 24, of Mt. Sterling, was charged with illegally selling the prescription painkiller Oxycodone on May 4 and June 27. Stevens was living in London at the time. Both drug deals allegedly took place in the presence of a juvenile, increasing any potential penalties.
Nichols appointed Robert Bannerman to represent Stevens at a Dec. 18 trial and released the woman on a signature bond and house arrest.
• Scott Reynolds, 35, an inmate at Madison Correctional Institution, was charged with violating the terms of his community control on a 2011 conviction for breaking and entering. That violation stems from a recent heroin trafficking conviction in Knox County.
Nichols appointed Fred Ballam to represent Reynolds at a Nov. 8 hearing.
• Former Plain City-area resident Chad A. Boggs, 27, was returned to the Chillicothe VA Medical Center for drug treatment after admitting he violated terms of his community control for a 2012 theft conviction.
Boggs finished residential drug treatment at the veterans’ hospital, but failed to show up in September for aftercare sessions.
Nichols gave the veteran a second chance to address his addiction problem.
TYPO ………..ALERT………… IN THE PRESS IT SAYS THAT MOORE IS RECIEVING AN ADDITIONAL 9 MONTHS IF THATS SO THEN THIS IS A TYPO OR IS IT AN EARLY RELEASE. ?
He was due for release on Sept. 4, 2013. That date is now bumped to June 4, 2013. Judge
LEGALIZE!
Here we go all the Drugs again in the City of London. What a dirty little town the London PD has no way to control this they are like a kid with a bike and no wheels they just set there
Why don’t we have the Madison coounty sheriff take over and let them get this under control. we all know Jim Sabin and his fine officers can do the job. Go get them Jim
1 more thing: if a drug dealer sells drugs at night is it still night ?
Jimmy, i dont believe we have a dirty little town…its the people who chooses to make it that way. The police department does not just sit there like kids with no wheels, the do the best they can to keep the drug problem under control my opinion is if half of the younger generation would take their asses to school and get an education and a real job our little town would be the way it was years ago which was a great place to live and a good place to raise our children without having to take our children to the bigger cities where more crime and drugs are.! I have lived here all of my life and i love our little town and again its not that the police are not doing their job its the dirty little people that bring this issure to our town…its ridiculous the sick and disabled cant even go to the drug stores to get the medications that we sadley need to function on a daily basis because WE the good people that has worked hard all of our life and has become disabled, and we cant even get half the medication needed because its all sold out because of the dirty little people lying to the doctors getting medication that they do not need. So before you blame the london police department for not doing their jobs try doing a little more research on the LAZY ASS YOUNGSTERS COLLECTING SOCIAL SECURITY AND WELFARE THAT WONT TAKE THEIR SELF TO SCHOOL OR WORK!!!! Again i love our little town.