Repeat Cocaine Trafficker to Serve 27 Years in Prison

Prosecutors with DA Charme P. Allen’s Felony Drug Unit obtained an enhanced sentence today in a case involving repeat cocaine dealer Jeffrey Stanley Mitchell. Assistant District Attorneys Matt McLeod and Sean McDermott argued an enhanced sentence was necessary given Mitchell’s prior criminal history including federal cocaine and firearms convictions. Judge Scott Green agreed with prosecutors and sentenced Mitchell to serve twenty-seven years in the Tennessee Department of Correction.

“Repeat offenders deserve enhanced sentences,” said DA Charme Allen. “If you cannot learn from prior incarceration, you need to serve the longest sentence possible.”

Mitchell, 42, was convicted in a January trial of two counts of Sale of Cocaine in a Drug Free School Zone, two counts of Facilitation of Sale of Cocaine in a Drug Free School Zone, one count of Facilitation of Possession with Intent to Sell Cocaine in a Drug Free School Zone, and one count of Simple Possession.

In August 2013, the Knoxville Police Department received several citizen complaints regarding drug activity at 2544 Woodbine Avenue. KPD Repeat Offender Squad Officer Adam Broome investigated the complaints and made four controlled purchases of crack cocaine from Mitchell and others within the residence. Based on those purchases, Officer Broome obtained a search warrant for the residence that was executed on September 12, 2013, by KPD Special Operations Squad and Repeat Offender Squad. The search of the residence revealed one hundred and forty grams of both crack and powder cocaine. With the average crack rock weighing 0.2 grams, Mitchell possessed around seven hundred individual units with a street value of $14,000. Mitchell was also found in possession of $1200 that included marked money from the undercover purchases.

Mitchell previously served ten years in federal prison based on convictions from the 1990s for Conspiracy to Distribute Cocaine and Use of a Firearm During a Drug Trafficking Crime.

If you have any questions, please contact Sean McDermott at 865-215-2515 or Sean.McDermott@knoxcounty.org. For more information about the District Attorney’s Office, visit our website at dag.knoxcountytn.gov and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.