Bilal Yusef Chaudhry, 27, of Festus has been sentenced to seven years in prison after admitting to violating the terms of probation he was serving for felony drug charges, according to court documents.
On Sept. 7, Jefferson County Div. 2 Circuit Judge Darrell E. Missey executed a seven-year prison term Chaudhry previously was sentenced to stemming from an April 2012 incident in Jefferson County, as well as two five-year terms he had been sentenced to connected to a December 2014 incident in Jefferson County. The sentences will be served concurrently, or at the same time, court records show.
Jefferson County assistant prosecuting attorney Trisha C. Stefanski handled the cases.
Chaudhry was first sentenced to the seven-year term in March 2015 after he pleaded guilty to felony possession of a controlled substance. In that case, detectives went to the 1200 block of Wimbledon Drive in Festus with a search warrant on April 19, 2012, and found a large amount of marijuana. Chaudhry admitted to receiving the marijuana through the mail from California, the probable-cause statement said.
Chaudhry was released early after completing a 120-day treatment program and was placed on five years’ probation, court documents said.
He was sentenced in January 2018 to two five-year prison terms after he pleaded guilty to two felony charges for possession of a controlled substance. In that case, he was found on Dec. 12, 2014, in a room in the Super 8 Motel, 1711 Hwy. Z, in Pevely, with alprazolam, codeine, marijuana, a bag with a clear, granulated substance that turned out to be sugar and two pistols with the serial numbers scratched off, the probable-cause statement said.
The sentences were suspended, and he was placed on five years’ probation. Since he violated his probation, though, the previous prison terms were executed, the report said.