BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Telegraph Staff Writer
STARKE— A Hampton woman was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading to a variety of drug charges.
Lorene Malia Aguilar, 45, pleaded to the Jan. 24 offense of selling methamphetamine. As part of a plea agreement, the state dropped additional charges of possessing a controlled substance with intent to sell and using a two-way communications device to facilitate a felony.
According to an arrest report, detectives with the Bradford Drug Task Force used a confidential source to buy four grams of the drug for $100 from the defendant’s Durden Street home.
The buyer and seller facilitated the transaction through text messages.
The following day, deputies were parked on County Road 18 in Hampton when they saw a tan Nissan SUV run a stop sign at Central Avenue.
Reporting officer Detective Andrew Johnson wrote in an arrest report that Aguilar was a passenger in the SUV. When officers approached the vehicle, the 45-year-old was reaching underneath the passenger front seat.
A vehicle search yielded several bags of methamphetamine with a total package weight of 43 grams.
Deputies also found a digital scale, a glass pipe, two metal spoons, and two pills, later identified as Clonazepam.
The state charged the defendant with trafficking in methamphetamine, evidence tampering, possession of a controlled substance without a prescription and possession of drug paraphernalia.
The sentence issued by Circuit Judge James M. Colaw included Florida’s minimum mandatory terms for trafficking in methamphetamine, which for possession of the drug between 14 and 28 grams carries a minimum sentence of three years.
The defendant’s prior convictions include driving with a suspended or revoked license, burglary of an unoccupied structure, felony petit theft, dealing in stolen property, use or possession of drug paraphernalia, expired tag registration over six months, trespassing and obtaining property by issuing a worthless check.
