Mount Sterling Man was sentenced to 17 years for meth crimes

Quincy (WGem) – A man Mount Sterling, Brown County, Illinois, was convicted of 17 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections on Monday, according to Adams County, Todd Eyler's lawyer.

Eyler reported that the 49-year-old Michael A. Taylor received a negotiated request and received a prison sentence of 17 years in order to at the same time to run with the intention to deliver methamphetamine.

Taylor was dismissed for a separate class 3 for the possession of methamphetamine for 206 days.

Taylor's prison sentence is delivered in scene with a rate of 75% truth.

On February 6, the inspectors of the West Central Illinois Task Force carried out a controlled purchase of Taylor, which led Taylor to sold 60 grams of methamphetamine to a confidential source in 12 individually wrapped zipperbaggies. The Illinois State Crime Lab confirmed that the objects were methamphetamine.

On October 11, the officials who were assigned to the special examination of the Quincy Police Department made a traffic stop of a vehicle in which Taylor Passenger was. During the stop, a K-9 was made aware of the presence of illegal narcotics, and a search for the vehicle found a backpack from Taylor, which contained numerous individually packaged baggium with a weight of 34.7 grams, which was confirmed by Illinois State Crime Lab as methamphetamine.

Taylor was condemned in 2016 for the possession of methamphetamine and possession of methamphetamine manufacturing materials for which it was put on probation. Taylor also has the possession with the intention of delivering methamphetamine in Brown County.

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