BESSEMER – A Bessemer couple was sentenced Tuesday for possessing pill presses used to make fake prescription drugs.
U.S. District Court Judge Annemarie Axon sentenced Earnest Lee Coleman, 44, and Tashana Lynn Sims, 38, husband and wife, according to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Coleman was sentenced to 78 months in prison and Sims was sentenced to 36 months probation for their roles in the offenses. Coleman pleaded guilty to possessing punches, dies, and plates with the intent to defraud or mislead, being a felon in possession of a firearm, possessing controlled substances with the intent to distribute them, holding for sale and dispensing a counterfeit drug, and adulteration of a drug.
A Bessemer couple has been sentenced federally for possessing pill presses used to make fake prescription drugs. Earnest Lee Coleman, 44, and his wife, 38-year-old Tashana Lynn Sims, were sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Court Judge Annemarie Axon,