A 55-year-old Sedalia man was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday, February 2, after being convicted of drug-related felonies.
A release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Western District of Missouri says Jeffery Wayne Taylor was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison without parole.
On July 6, 2020, Taylor was convicted at a bench trial of two counts of distributing crack cocaine and one count of possessing crack cocaine with the intent to distribute.
Taylor sold a total of 32.8 grams of crack cocaine to a confidential informant, working with law enforcement, on 10 separate occasions from March 2 to June 8, 2018. Law-enforcement officers executed a search warrant at Taylor’s residence on June 8, 2018, and seized crack cocaine packaged for sale, which was hidden under the lowest piece of vinyl siding attached to the house.