3-year sentence given on drug charges
A Wilkinsburg man will have the next three years to break a drug habit in state prison.
President Judge Thomas Doerr expressed his hope on Thursday that sentencing Taalibe A. Glover, 24, to prison would help Glover stay clean for good. The sentence came just a week after Glover avoided a jury trial, pleading guilty to two counts of drug possession with intent to deliver.
“I’ve found that three years of supervision and clean time is essential,” Doerr said in court and explained that “you would be better suited there because of the intensity of their program” at the state prison.
Glover, who has a history of juvenile offenses, was mostly quiet during his appearance. But his lawyer, Ann Simms, said that while Glover exhibited high intelligence, “He was exposed to drugs at an early age, unfortunately” and told her that he considered his detainment in Butler County Prison for 333 days, for which he received credit for time served, as “an obvious blessing.”
Last year Glover struck a different tone during his arraignment, which had to be canceled after he began yelling at a judge and repeatedly banged his head all the way back to the jail.
The drug charges to which Glover pleaded guilty arise from two cases. The first from an arrest on Dec. 11, 2016, and the other an arrest Oct. 10, 2017.
Glover’s legal troubles aren’t over, as he faces two other pending criminal cases in Butler County in which he faces similar charges of drug possession with intent to deliver. They were filed in the court system on Nov. 28 and Oct. 24, 2017.
