5 years, 9 months ago by Scott Hardy
Devontae Ecford found to have violated parole from 2015 drug case
A Hannibal man, who's pleaded Guilty to heroin dealing charges from 2017 and is due to be sentenced next month, has been sent to prison after violating parole from a 2015 case.
Devontae Ecford was sentenced Tuesday in Marion County Circuit Court to 15 years in prison. A judge found that Ecford had violated his parole, after he pleaded Guilty in late 2015 to one count of delivery of a controlled substance. Ecford also pleaded Guilty in early June in Marion County to two counts of delivery of a controlled substance. As part of a settlement with prosecutors, a third charge of a felon in possession of a firearm was dropped. Ecford admitted that he sold Heroin to an undercover ACES officer in the backyard of a home in the 4 hundred block of North 8th Street in late August 2017. ACES officers later searched that home Labor Day afternoon and found heroin, marijuana and items consistent with narcotics distribution.
Ecford will be sentenced on the 2017 case July 2nd.
