City man gets 30 months in prison in heroin case

August 3, 2015 at 7:28p.m.

CLEVELAND

A federal judge has sentenced a Youngstown man to 30 months in prison after a jury convicted him of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin and three counts of using a telephone to facilitate drug trafficking.

Jabbar D. Spires, 38, drew the sentence Monday from U.S. District Judge James S. Gwin.

Beyond the sentence in this case, Spires drew an additional eight consecutive months in prison because the charges in this case constituted a violation of the supervised release he had been on in another federal case.

In this case, Spires could have faced up to 20 years in prison on the conspiracy charge and up to four years in prison on the telephone charges.

A pre-sentence investigation report prepared by the U.S. Probation office suggested Spires should serve 92 to 115 months in prison.