Exton Man Gets Up To 14 Years In Prison For Role In Meth Ring
NORRISTOWN — A Chester County man was sentenced in Montgomery County Court here Monday to 7 to 14 years in state prison for his role in a methamphetamine trafficking ring that shipped the drug from Los Angeles to southeastern Pennsylvania.
Jhamir Winans, 24, of Exton, pleaded guilty before Judge Virgil Walker to running a corrupt organization and possessing with intent to deliver meth.
Investigators said the ring was selling 800 pounds of a new brand of crystal meth, with a street value of up to $3.7 million.
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District Attorney Kevin Steele said the meth was made in Mexico in highly sophisticated laboratories.
Steele said Mexican cartels are producing the new meth and it is becoming more popular than fentanyl. He added that there is no quick cure for methamphetamine overdoses like Naloxone which is used to reverse an opioid overdose.
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Winans was one of five suspects arrested in April 2022 by state, local and federal law enforcement officers who dismantled the meth ring.
“The investigation resulting in these five arrests shut off a significant pipeline for methamphetamine to the entire southeastern Pennsylvania region, and our communities are safer for it,” Steele said at the time of the arrest.
Andrew Levin, a defense lawyer representing Winans, asked for leniency because his client was remorseful.
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