TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier held a news conference Wednesday morning at the Florida State Capitol to discuss the convictions of two people accused in what he described as a large-scale drug-trafficking operation.
“These individuals, they started as street-level drug dealers. They went in and out of the criminal justice system — they weren’t locked up long enough, they will be now — and, you know, as a result, they moved up and then they became more dangerous criminals engaged in widespread trafficking, in conspiracy to traffic," Uthmeier said. “So we got them. I think Delmetrice (Rogers) is going to be looking at 27 years behind bars. Lasonya Savage is going to get a Savage sentence — 11 years — and we’re going to continue to send a message to criminals out there. If you do the crime, we’re going to take it seriously.”
Rogers was charged with conspiracy to traffic cocaine 200 to 400 grams, trafficking cocaine 200 to 400 grams and two counts of trafficking cocaine 28 grams to 200 grams.
Savage was charged with conspiracy to traffic cocaine 28 to 200 grams possession of a place of structure for purpose of trafficking.
Uthmeier was joined by Statewide Prosecutor Brad McVay, Assistant Statewide Prosecutor Guillermo Vallejo, Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Mark Glass and Tallahassee Police Department Chief Lawrence Revell.
“This case is multi-year, went back in 2020. We’re talking about 42 different people got arrested or pled out or rolled or sung like a canary to somebody else and that’s how we rolled up the chain to get to these two, last two, to get convicted here,” Glass said.
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