Anthony Abbondandolo, 39, of De Soto has been sentenced to seven years in prison following multiple drug charges and probation violations, according to court records.
Abbondandolo pleaded guilty on March 5 to possession of a controlled substance as a prior and persistent offender. That same day Jefferson County Div. 1 Circuit Judge Joseph Rathert sentenced Abbondandolo to the seven-year term, court documents show.
That sentence stemmed from a 2021 incident in the De Soto area, and it will be served concurrently with sentences he previously received but were suspended when he got probation instead.
On Feb. 6, though, Rathert revoked the probation Abbondandolo previously was placed on and ordered him to serve a seven-year sentence he received in August 2016 and a five-year sentence he received in April 2019, court records show.
Abbondandolo currently is in the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre.
In the most recent case against Abbondandolo, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested him in September 2021 after deputies stopped a Ford Explorer he was driving on Fountain City Road near Hwy. 110 in the De Soto area and found drugs inside. A police dog indicated drugs were in the SUV, and deputies found a bag containing a crystal-like substance that later tested positive as methamphetamine, as well as one packet with yellow buprenorphine and naloxone sublingual; four white packets with buprenorphine and naloxone sublingual; a digital scale and a Pringles can with a false bottom in the Explorer, the report said.
At his home in the 500 block of East Pratt Street in De Soto, investigators found cannabis edibles, several bags containing marijuana, drug paraphernalia and four bags with a crystal-like substance that tested positive for meth, according to the report.
In 2018, a Crystal City Police officer arrested Abbondandolo after he was stopped on South Truman Boulevard. The officer found 13 capsules containing fentanyl, a glass smoking device with methamphetamine residue and drug paraphernalia in the vehicle, the probable-cause statement said.
In 2016, a Sheriff’s Office deputy arrested Abbondandolo after executing a search warrant to investigate a potential drug purchase at a home in the 500 block of West St. Louis Street in De Soto. Abbondandolo had two bags with substances that tested positive for heroin, multiple pills, drug paraphernalia and $1,029, the probable-cause statement said.
Jefferson County assistant prosecuting attorney Lindsay Whalen handled the latest drug case.