Curtis A. Polston, 31, of High Ridge, a prior offender, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison following numerous felony drug charges and probation violations, according to court documents.
In January 2015, a Jefferson County deputy pulled over a vehicle at Carlton Drive and Rock Creek Road in High Ridge, and Polston, one of several people inside the vehicle, was found with a syringe and the bottom of a soda can with residue on it, which was tested and turned out to be heroin, the probable-cause statement said.
Several months later, in September 2015, Polston was found at a home in the 200 block of Hellespont Drive in the De Soto area with three syringes, one filled with a liquid that was determined to be heroin, the report said.
The next month, in October 2015, Polston was found walking at Bear Creek and Briarwood Drive in House Springs, an area where a motorist fled from a deputy who had shortly before tried to pull over a vehicle for a traffic violation. Polston was found with two empty syringes and three capsules that were filled with heroin.
Polston pleaded guilty to three counts of possession of a controlled substance, all felonies, and three counts of unlawful use of drug paraphernalia, misdemeanors, and on Nov. 7, 2016, Jefferson County Div. 6 Circuit Judge Troy Cardona sentenced him to three seven-year prison terms – one for each of the felony charges – and to 120 days in jail for each of the three paraphernalia charges. However, all the terms are to be served concurrently, or at the same time, court papers show.
Those seven years also are to be served concurrent with a 10-year term Polston previously was sentenced to for a felony drug charge stemming from an incident in June 2012, he was found in Jefferson County with a glass jar containing a white powder that he said was heroin, the probable-cause statement said.
He pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance, and in April 2014, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but the sentence was suspended and he got five years’ probation.
Polston violated his probation, though, and in March 2015, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. However, Polston was released in July 2015 on five years’ probation after completing a treatment program. He violated the probation again, so, in November 2016, Cardona also executed that 10-year term, according to the report.
Jefferson County assistant prosecuting attorney Jacob T. Costello handled the cases.
Two other defendants, Steven M. Ide II, who was born in 1988 and lives in High Ridge, and Michael Bailey, born in 1989 and residing in High Ridge, also were charged in connection with the January 2015 incident.
Ide was charged with driving with a revoked or suspended license, a misdemeanor, and served three days in jail for it, according to court records.
Bailey was charged with possession of a controlled substance, a felony, and unlawful use of drug paraphernalia, a misdemeanor, and that case is pending. A criminal setting hearing is scheduled for 9 a.m. Tuesday, April 11, in front of Jefferson County Div. 10 Associate Circuit Judge Jeff Coleman.
Polston already is serving two concurrent three-year prison terms he previously got for felony drug possession charges stemming from a May 2004 incident in Jefferson County. So, the 10 years Polston was sentenced to in November 2016 also are to be served concurrent with the three-year terms, court documents indicated.
Polston currently is in the Algoa Correctional Center in Jefferson City.