{"id":144019,"date":"2026-02-04T23:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/144019\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T23:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:16:07","slug":"tallahassee-cocaine-dealers-sentenced-to-prison-as-part-of-statewide-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/144019\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallahassee cocaine dealers sentenced to prison as part of statewide crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/ Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; Two convicted north Florida drug dealers will spend a combined 38 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on Wednesday that two people were convicted of trafficking cocaine across the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-center article-text\">More on crime in our area:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Delmetrice Rogers and Lasonya Savage were arrested in 2021 after Tallahassee police executed search warrants as part of the larger effort to fight drugs across Florida, according to Uthmeier. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019re a big state, our population\u2019s growing, capital is flowing in like never before,\u201d Uthmeier said. \u201cThose trends typically lead to more crime; bad people, evil people, they chase money. But not in Florida because we set the stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Rogers was sentenced to 27 years in prison, while Savage will spend 11 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/ Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; Two convicted north Florida drug dealers will spend a combined 38&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[692,6239,20389,9231,69841,43654,28,4260,69842,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-144019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-arrest","tag-cocaine","tag-convicted","tag-crackdown","tag-delmetrice-rogers","tag-drug-traffickers","tag-florida","tag-james-uthmeier","tag-lasonya-savage","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}