A 45-year-old Orlando man will spend the next 8 years and 8 months behind bars for possessing cocaine and a firearm as a convicted felon.
Jeffrey Walt Boston was sentenced this week by Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II for an incident in June 2021 in which he was caught with a firearm and cocaine.
During that incident on June 4, 2021, Boston he tossed a cigarette box from the window of a car he was driving in Lake County. A nearby deputy retrieved the box, recognized the contents, and pursued and stopped Boston.
During the pursuit, Boston discarded a bag of marijuana that hit the deputy’s windshield.
A subsequent search of the vehicle revealed another cigarette box with cocaine, a stolen pistol under the drivers’ seat, 13 bags with cocaine tin them, 5 alprazolam pills, and marijuana.
Boston later admitted that all of the drugs and the loaded firearm were his.