Description: St. Louis, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm and drugs.

Bryant Taylor, 31, sold oxycodone, heroin and fentanyl to an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agent and a person working for the DEA in August and September of 2019.

On March 28, 2020, St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department officers saw what appeared to be a drug transaction, and officers found fentanyl, cocaine base and a 9mm Taurus handgun in a Mercedes Benz with Taylor.

On Oct. 1, 2020, after Taylor was charged in St. Louis Circuit Court and a U.S. Marshals task force went to his home to arrest him, they found fentanyl, $12,795 in cash, a Glock 19 handgun with a drum magazine, a Kel-Tec rifle, a Kimber .45-caliber handgun and drug paraphernalia. Taylor admitted selling fentanyl and cocaine base and admitted that the cash came from drug sales, his guilty plea says.

Taylor pleaded guilty in March to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and distribution of fentanyl and heroin.

The Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Marshals Service, and the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department conducted the investigation.

POSSESSION OF A FIREARM IN FURTHERANCE OF ONE OR MORE DRUG-TRAFFICKING CRIMES
(3rs)

POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE A MIXTURE OF FENTANYL AND HEROIN
(4rs)

POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE A MIXTURE OR SUBSTANCE CONTAINING A DETECTABLE AMOUNT OF FENTANYL IN EXCESS OF 40 GRAMS
(7rs)

Outcome: The defendant is hereby committed to the custody of the United States Bureau of Prisons to be imprisoned for a total term of 120 months. This term consists of a term of 60 months concurrent on each of Counts 4 and 7, to be followed by 60 months on Count 3, to be served consecutive to Counts 4 and 7. This sentence shall run concurrent with any sentence imposed in Circuit Court, St. Louis, Missouri, under Docket No. 2022-CR00895. Supervised Release for a term of 3 years. This term consists of a term of three years on each of Counts 3, 4 and 7, all such terms to run concurrently. Special assessment of $300 due immediately.

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