An Allegheny County man convicted of drugs and firearms charges stemming from a November 2022 traffic stop in Butler Township was sentenced Tuesday in Butler County Common Pleas Court to serve up to 15 years in prison.

Charles Lloyd, 47, of West Mifflin was sentenced to serve 7 years and 9 months to 15 years and 6 months in state prison and pay fines totaling $1,450.

He was convicted in a nonjury trial in November last year of felony charges of prohibited possession of a firearm and possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver; and misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest, possession of a small amount of marijuana and four counts of possession. He was found not guilty of two felony counts of aggravated assault.

Judge Joseph Kubit presided over the trial and imposed the sentence.

Lloyd was sentenced to 60 months to 120 months in prison and fined $250 for prohibited possession of a firearm followed by 33 months to 66 months in prison and another $250 fine for possession with intent to deliver. He was given three 6-to-12-month prison sentences and three $200 fines for three counts of possession to be served consecutively to each other, but concurrently to the other sentences. The sentence for the fourth possession charge was merged with the possession with intent to deliver sentence. For resisting arrest, he was sentenced to 3 to 12 months in prison and fined $200. He was fined $150 for the possession of a small amount of marijuana charge. His sentence included serving 12 months of reentry supervision after he is released from prison. He was given credit for having served 117 days in the Butler County Prison.

State police filed charges against Lloyd, who was the passenger in a vehicle, and the driver following a traffic stop Nov. 25, 2022. Police pulled over the vehicle on New Castle Road near North Duffy Road around 3:45 p.m. Nov. 25 due to a malfunctioning rear brake light. All the charges except a summary traffic charge were withdrawn against the driver.

Police said Lloyd resisted when troopers were patting him down and he continued resisting after he was taken to the ground.

After obtaining a search warrant for the vehicle, police said they found a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun with a full magazine, two bricks of suspected heroin, 12 suspected clonazepam pills, four suspected gabapentin pills, two suspected amphetamine and dextroamphetamine pills, 8.54 grams of suspected powdered fentanyl, 16.9 grams of suspected powdered cocaine, 11.51 grams of suspected crack cocaine, 4.94 grams of suspected powdered heroin, four empty plastic bags and two marijuana joints.

Before the sentence was imposed, defense attorney Domenic Pietropaolo asked for mercy for Lloyd. He said Lloyd has two previous convictions on drug charges, but had a difficult childhood in which he was raised in poverty by a single mother.

Pietropaolo said Lloyd fist used drugs when he was 9 years old and has struggled with mental health and sobriety issues since he was shot 10 times when he was 19 years old.

Despite his troubles, Lloyd has hope for the future and maintains his innocence, Pietropaolo said. He said he plans to file post sentence motions and possibly an appeal.

Assistant District Attorney Laura Pitchford said Lloyd put “poison in the community” and has prior convictions for possession of controlled substances with intent to deliver. She said the drugs had a long lasting ripple effect in the community.

“It’s a shame he didn’t learn a lesson from his prior convictions,” Pitchford said.

Lloyd is the father of Daniel Charles Lloyd, 23, of Pitcairn, Allegheny County, and his identical twin brother, Charles Daniel Lloyd, 23, of Pittsburgh.

Daniel C. Lloyd was sentenced to life in prison without parole in June 2024 after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first degree murder in the June 11, 2022 drug-related shooting death of Frederick Orr, 32, of Columbus, Ohio.

He hid in the back of a sport utility vehicle driven by co-defendant Nicole Schwartz, 40, of Ellwood City, when she picked up Orr after he was released from county prison on June 10, 2022, and shot Orr early June 11.

Orr’s body was found with three gunshot wounds — two in the back and one in the back of his head — along Kelly Road between East Portersville and Yellow Creek roads in Muddycreek Township.

Schwartz pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit third-degree murder and was sentenced to serve 9 to 20 years in state prison followed by five years of probation.

Charles D. Lloyd pleaded guilty in March 2024 to possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and driving under the influence charges filed by state police following a September 2022 traffic stop in Clay Township.

He was sentenced in March 2024 to serve 6 to 18 months in prison for the possession charge and 14 days in prison followed by 6 months of probation for the DUI charge, but was immediately paroled.