{"id":433899,"date":"2026-10-21T10:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T10:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/433899\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T10:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T10:06:17","slug":"fort-myers-man-sentenced-to-27-years-for-running-meth-network-in-palmona-park-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/433899\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Myers man sentenced to 27 years for running meth network in Palmona Park | Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A North Fort Myers man has been sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p>Frederick Taylor, 38, pleaded guilty on March 9, according to U.S. Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe. U.S. District Judge Kyle Dudek handed down the sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents and evidence presented at Taylor&#8217;s sentencing hearing revealed he was a drug dealer operating in the Palmona Park neighborhood of North Fort Myers. He used a network of lower-level dealers and residences to distribute controlled substances, including methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p>On multiple occasions, Taylor took orders from a confidential informant and directed one of his subordinate dealers to fulfill the transaction. He ultimately sold nearly a pound of methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p>A search warrant executed at Taylor&#8217;s residence revealed multiple firearms and approximately $12,000 in cash.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A North Fort Myers man has been sentenced to 27 years in federal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28,897],"class_list":["post-433899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-florida","tag-fort-myers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433899","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=433899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}