A Montgomery County Judge Sent A Local Man To Prison On Drug Trafficking Charges

PERKIOMENVILLE, PA — A local man will be spending between 11-and-one-half and 23 months in the Montgomery County Correctional Facility after a state judge sentenced him on drug trafficking charges, according to court records and media reports.

Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge Thomas C. Branca imposed the sentence on Jeffrey Christopher Adams, 44, after the defendant pleaded guilty late last year to a felony count of possession with intent to manufacture or deliver controlled substances, court records show.

The criminal docket sheet in the case shows that Adams pleaded guilty during a hearing in late November 2021. He was sentenced on March 1.

Records show Adams was also ordered to complete three years of court supervised probation after he is released from the county jail.

The case dates back to the summer of 2019, when state narcotics agents with the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office obtained a warrant to search the defendant's home and ended up finding large sums of cash in addition to multiple bags of suspected methamphetamine plus digital scales, packaging materials, and other drugs, according to a report in the Mercury newspaper of Pottstown, which cited a criminal complaint written by state narcotics investigators.

The report says that narcotics agents also discovered Adams to be in possession of marijuana, various containers of unknown pills, and other items known to be used in drug manufacturing.

Records show that other criminal charges that had initially been lodged against Adams were dropped in exchange for the guilty plea on the one felony count. They included an additional felony count plus four misdemeanors.