Man sentenced to six years for selling drugs

March 22, 2017 at 12:00a.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

Jason Mont said just before he was sentenced Tuesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court on charges he sold drugs that he prays he can get the “taste” for drugs out of his mouth.

Mont, 39, of Catalina Avenue, told Judge John Durkin his addiction to pills and constant smoking of marijuana led him to a lifestyle to support his addiction and that ultimately led to his arrest in two drug cases in 2015 and 2016 investigated by the Mahoning Valley Law Enforcement Task Force.

Mont was given a six-year prison sentence that was agreed upon between the attorneys on charges of trafficking in cocaine and trafficking in marijuana.

He told the judge he was released from federal prison on drug charges before his current charges and had a job but was forced to quit. That is when old habits started to come back, he said.

“I got distracted,” Mont said. “That’s when I started using the pills and smoking weed.”

Mont said he never thought he was an addict, but he told the judge he was taking 10 to 15 pills a day before he was arrested on his current charges.

He said he knows he has to stop using drugs for good.

“I can’t do this no more. I can’t get in trouble any more,” Mont said.

“I just pray to God to take away my taste for it.”

In his 2015 case, Mont is forfeiting $6,222, and in his 2016 case, he is forfeiting $2,227 and two vehicles.