May 14, 2008
Attorney General Bill McCollum News Release
March 24, 2008
  en Español

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Jacksonville Cocaine Trafficker Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison

~ Cocaine trafficking ring ran drugs from Miami to North Florida ~


TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that a Jacksonville man received an eight-year prison sentence for conspiring to traffic cocaine. Victor Smith was sentenced today for his involvement in a cocaine trafficking ring which supplied drugs from Miami to drug dealers in Clay and Duval counties. Smith and several co-defendants were prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office of Statewide Prosecution.

Smith, 48, was arrested after participating in an ongoing drug organization which transported about five kilograms of cocaine per a week from Miami to Clay and Duval counties. The investigation used wire taps, surveillance and multiple search warrants to bring about the arrests of Smith and 16 of his co-conspirators. The investigation was conducted by the Office of Statewide Prosecution, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

Smith was charged with conspiring to traffic more than 400 grams of cocaine, a first-degree felony. Fourteen of his 16 co-defendants have also pled guilty to charges of conspiracy to traffic in cocaine, 400 grams or more, and have received sentences involving substantial prison terms. Today’s sentence was handed down by Judge William Wilkes of the 4th Judicial Circuit.