STARKE—A McIntosh man who claimed he was entrapped by a law enforcement source was sentenced to two years in prison followed by two years of community control probation after he pleaded to selling methamphetamine in the parking lot of a Starke Dollar General.
Troy Allen Gignac, 36, pleaded to selling methamphetamine while the state dropped a second charge of unlawful use of a two-way communications device.
According to a warrant affidavit, the Marion County resident sold 28 grams of the stimulant to a confidential Bradford County Sheriff’s Office source at a Dollar General for $350 on Jan. 23.
Although represented by the public defender, Gignac filed a pro se motion, asking a judge to dismiss the charges “in the interest of justice.”
In his motion, the defendant wrote that he took marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamine as self-medication for ADHD, ADD, and bipolar disorder. He claimed that the sheriff’s office’s confidential source entrapped him by harassing him with more than 10 phone calls and text messages. He also complained that the source had been arrested more than five times in the past year.
Judge James Colaw struck Gignac’s motion because defendants cannot simultaneously be represented by counsel and represent themselves.
The defendant had no prior convictions.
