Huntingdon man sentenced to 11 years in prison

JACKSON, Tenn. — A Huntingdon man was sentenced to federal prison.

Friday, the district attorney’s office said that Cassius Sinclair Jordan, 38, was sentenced to 11 years for being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.

The charges stemmed from May of 2020, when a police officer found Jordan laying across the steering wheel of a parked car with a glass pipe and a cigarette lighter in his hands, the release says.

The release says the car was searched, and a Smith and Wesson .40 caliber handgun with nine loaded rounds, 12 .40 caliber rounds of ammunition, a bag of around 93 grams of methamphetamine, a bag of around 41 Xanax tablets, a bag of around 14.2 grams of marijuana, more than $7,280 in cash, a box of baggies and digital scales were found inside.

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