Twenty years in federal prison was handed down to a Tampa-based fentanyl trafficker. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida has issued the following statement.
For charges including having methamphetamine and fentanyl with the purpose of distribution, having a firearm in furtherance of narcotics trafficking, and having a firearm as a convicted felon, Mitchell Wilson (35, Tampa) was sentenced to 20 years and 8 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber.
A Smith & Wesson Model M&P Shield 9mm pistol and other rounds of ammo were also deemed instrumentalities of the felony and ordered Wilson to lose them by the court. On November 22, 2023, Wilson pled guilty.
Wilson was a prominent drug dealer in the Middle District of Florida, as shown in court records. Wilson sold fentanyl to an undisclosed source on September 13, 2022.
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As Wilson walked from his hotel room to his car three days later, authorities found a scale in his backpack along with 97 grams of pure methamphetamine, 36 grams of a mixture of fentanyl and cocaine, and a loaded weapon. The backpack also held the pistol.
