Gulfport bar owner sentenced for selling cocaine, heroin

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) – A Gulfport bar owner will serve seven years and three months in prison for buying and selling cocaine and China White heroin out of the Ice Daiquiri Lounge.

The Sun Herald reports Chief U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. imposed the sentence Tuesday, also ordering 35-year-old Carlos Miller to serve three years under post-release supervision and pay a $5,000 fine. Miller pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted possession with intent to distribute of cocaine. A criminal forfeiture filed calls for the seizure of a 2008 Dodge Charger and $8,628 in drug proceeds.

A federal grand jury had indicted Miller on drug conspiracy charges.