Judges crack down on drug offenders

Published 10:29 am Thursday, February 5, 2009

Drug and weapons infractions will send an Ironton man to prison for four years.

Donald Large, 29, of 2714 S. Fifth St., Ironton, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court to two counts of aggravated trafficking in drugs and one count each of possession of criminal tools and having a weapon under a disability.

Judge Charles Cooper ordered Large to pay $7,500 in fines and surrender his driver’s license for a year. In exchange for his guilty plea, a gun specification attached to one of the drug charges was dismissed.

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Also Wednesday, Marqueeta Hausey, 31, of 906 S. Ninth St., Ironton, pleaded guilty to two counts of theft of drugs.

Judge D. Scott Bowling sentenced him to four years community controlled sanctions under intensive supervised probation (CCS/ISP) and ordered her to undergo counseling at the Family Guidance Center.

In another case, Suzanne McCall, 25, of 818 S. Eighth St., entered an Alford plea to one count of complicity to trafficking in marijuana. Under the agreement between the prosecutor’s office and McCall, a variety of other charges were dropped.

Bowling sentenced her to four years CCS/ISP.

Her husband, Charles McCall, 35, of the same address, pleaded guilty last year to multiple drugs charges and was sentenced to nine years in prison.

The McCalls were arrested in a December 2007 drug raid during which more than 1,000 grams of powder cocaine were seized.

That was the largest amount ever confiscated in Lawrence County.