The Jefferson County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office recently charged a Chesterfield man for allegedly selling illegal drugs to an undercover Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper. The man had met the trooper outside of the White Castle restaurant, 1000 Veterans Blvd., in Festus, according to court documents.
The Prosecuting Attorney’s Office on Sept. 10 charged Jamil K. Robinson, 39, with two counts of first-degree drug trafficking, which are class A felonies and each are punishable by 10 to 30 years or life in prison, court records show.
Robinson was released on a $50,000 bond on Oct. 1 from the Jefferson County Jail in Hillsboro, court documents said.
According to the case’s probable-cause statement, a trooper was contacted by a confidential source who said Robinson was selling methamphetamine and fentanyl in St. Francios County. The source said Robinson was nicknamed “Red” and provided the trooper with a telephone number to call Robnson.
The source then called Robinson at about 11 a.m. Oct. 18, 2023, and arranged for the trooper to meet Robinson. The source told Robinson that someone wanted to buy half a pound of meth and 13 grams of fentanyl, the report said.
Robinson allegedly agreed to the sale and said it would cost $2,100. He then called the trooper at about 12:15 p.m. that day to confirm the deal and said, “I’ll go grab it and then call you when I’m headed south,” according to the report.
At about 2:15 p.m., Robinson drove a Dodge Ram 1500 to White Castle and parked next to the trooper. Another man in the pickup got out and entered the back seat of the undercover officer’s vehicle, the report said.
The man who entered the vehicle handed the trooper a T-shirt, which allegedly was wrapped around a bag of meth and a bag of fentanyl. The trooper then gave the man $2,100, according to the report.
The man who entered the trooper’s vehicle counted the money, and the trooper weighed the bag that contained fentanyl to confirm the amount. The Highway Patrol tested the substances in the two bags and confirmed the contents were meth and fentanyl, the report said.