Miller to serve time for selling cocaine
A man who sold crack cocaine within the shadow of Bobby Ray Elementary will serve 12 years in prison.
The defendant, William (Bro) Miller, 26, entered a guilty plea recently to charges of sale of cocaine and was ordered to serve 12 years in the state penitentiary. His sentence will be served at 35 percent since he is a repeat offender.
Miller was busted in 2002 after he sold drugs to an undercover operative on several occasions. Some of the transactions happened at the clean-up shop located next to Bobby Ray Elementary, meaning they were a violation of the school zone law.
The state’s school zone law provides additional penalties for people who traffic drugs in close proximity of a school – plus such offenders are required to serve 100 percent of their sentences. Miller was spared the school zone penalty; however, as he was allowed to plea to cocaine sale charges other than the one which violated the school zone law.
Prosecutors said the amounts sold by Miller were small, although the dealer frequently sold to the agent. At the time of his arrest, lawmen said they were having difficulty buying drugs from other dealers because Miller was aggressive and would always attempt to get the operative’s business.
Miller was free on parole at the time of his most recent bust. He had been caught in operations in Warren and Rutherford County in 1998 and had been sentenced to serve four years for the violations.