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MONTICELLO – A Jeffersonville man was sentenced in Sullivan County Supreme Court on Thursday to seven years in state prison and five years of post-release supervision for the criminal possession of a weapon as a violent felony.
Tyrell Simon, 28, was also sentenced to three years in prison and two years of post-release supervision for criminal possession of a controlled substance. Both sentences imposed by Judge Stephan Schick are to run concurrently.
Simon admitted to possessing heroin with intent to sell it after a car stop in July 2014 in Monticello and to also possessing a loaded 22 caliber handgun at a residence in the Town of Delaware in September 2014.
Simon was arrested by Monticello Police in July 2014 after a vehicle and traffic stop and the discovery of over seven grams of heroin.
He was later arrested in September by State Police after they found him in possession of 202 bags of heroin, suboxone and a loaded and stolen 22 caliber handgun. The gun had been stolen from a residence in the Town of Thompson.
Under terms of the plea agreement, Sullivan County District Attorney James Farrell said the maximum sentence was nine years in state prison and Farrell asked for the maximum under the plea.
Farrell described Simon as a “self-proclaimed ‘street pharmacist’ of the lethal kind” as he requested nine years in prison.
Simon also faces charges in a federal indictment for conspiracy to distribute heroin in Sullivan County and was arrested in July 2015 after an investigation by the FBI Safe Streets Task Force and the US Attorney. He remains in federal custody pending disposition of that federal indictment.
