Drug Trafficking
Drug trafficking is the possession, sale, transportation, manufacture or delivery of a specified quantity of a controlled substance or illegal drug.
In Florida, all trafficking charges are first-degree felonies punishable by up to 30 years in prison.
Trafficking charges are significant in that a conviction may result in substantial minimum/mandatory prison sentences and fines.
Some examples under Florida law:
| MINIMUM MANDATORY | FINE | |
| Cannabis | ||
| 25-200 pounds or 300-2,000 plants | 3 years | $25,000 |
| 2,000-10,000 pounds or 2,000-10,000 plants | 7 years | $50,000 |
| More than 10,000 pounds or 10,000 plants | 15 years | $200,000 |
| Cocaine | ||
| 28 -200 grams | 3 years | $50,000 |
| 200-400 grams | 7 years | $100,000 |
| 400 grams-150 kilograms | 15 years | $250,000 |
| Heroin, oxycodone, hydrocodone and morphine | ||
| 4-14 grams | 3 years | $50,000 |
| 14-28 grams | 15 years | $100,000 |
| 28 grams-30 kilograms | 25 years | $500,000 |
| Methamphetamine | ||
| 14-28 grams | 3 years | $50,000 |
| 28-200 grams | 7 years | $100,000 |
| More than 200 grams | 15 years | $250,000 |
Under both federal law and the laws of Florida and other states, specific statutes describe acts that constitute trafficking and conspiracy to traffic. Conspiracy is an agreement to commit a crime or to cause that crime to be committed by one of the co-conspirators or another person.
Please contact our office for more information on the particular charges in your case.
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