THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Thursday, October 24, 1996            TAG: 9610240457
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B4   EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Metro Briefs 
DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH                    LENGTH:   24 lines

DRUG SENTENCE

For the second time in as many days, a Circuit Court judge has upheld a stiff jury recommendation against a convicted drug dealer.

Judge John K. Moore on Wednesday let stand a July 23 sentence of 75 years in prison for 22-year-old Nelson Dollar Smith. Smith also was fined $800,000.

Smith, of the 4900 block of Paine Lane in Virginia Beach, was convicted of selling .50 grams of crack cocaine to an undercover police officer Oct. 25, 1994.

He also was convicted of arranging the sale of .75 grams of crack cocaine a day later. Both sales were made at a 7-Eleven parking lot within 1,000 feet of Bayside High School.

On Tuesday Judge Kenneth N. Whitehurst Jr. let stand a June 11 jury recommendation for 27-year-old Eugene Smalls, a native of the Virgin Islands. Smalls was sentenced to 90 years in prison and fined $1 million for importing one kilogram of crack cocaine into the commonwealth from St. Thomas.

KEYWORDS: DRUG ARREST CRACK COCAINE DRUG SENTENCING by CNB