An Ohio man was sentenced to prison and fined $5,000 Tuesday after pleading guilty to drug delivery and paraphernalia charges in Butler County Common Pleas Court.

Harriel De M.R. Moore, 39, of Canton, was sentenced to serve 24 to 72 months in prison, pay a $5,000 fine and complete 60 hours of community service after he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and a misdemeanor count of possession of paraphernalia filed by state police following a Dec. 4, 2024, drug buy in Cranberry Township. His sentence of 30 to 60 days in prison for the paraphernalia charge runs concurrently with the possession sentence.

An informant told police and an agent from the attorney general’s office Moore was bringing a kilogram of cocaine from Canton to a parking lot along Route 19 in the township, according to an affidavit.

After police established surveillance, a black GMC Yukon with an Ohio license plate pulled into the lot just after 7 p.m. Moore exited the vehicle and was met by an undercover agent, police said.

A trooper used a K-9 to conduct an exterior check of the Yukon and the dog indicated the presence of narcotics at four locations in the vehicle. After obtaining a search warrant, a kilogram of cocaine was found in a shoebox on the rear driver’s side of the vehicle, police said.