TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that a Naples man has received a three-year prison sentence for trafficking in cocaine. Daniel Chervony III was sentenced today for his involvement in three cocaine transactions he conducted with undercover narcotics agents with the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. Chervony was prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office of Statewide Prosecution.

Chervony, 24, was arrested in February 2007 after meeting for a third time with undercover detectives to sell them cocaine. During the first two controlled buys in January 2007, agents met Chervony at various locations in Bonita Springs and purchased an ounce of cocaine from him each time. The detectives then made arrangements to purchase a larger amount of cocaine from Chervony, but arrested him just before the buy took place. During the arrest, officers recovered more than 2.5 ounces of cocaine from Chervony’s pockets, as well as a bottle of Inositol powder which is typically used by drug dealers to cut cocaine. Chervony subsequently confessed to all three transactions.

Chervony pled guilty to two counts of sale or delivery of cocaine, second-degree felonies, and one count of trafficking in more than 28 grams of cocaine, a first-degree felony which carries a three-year minimum mandatory sentence. Today’s sentence was handed down by Judge Edward J. Volz, Jr., of the 20th Judicial Circuit.