Article: MAN ADMITS HE SOLD COCAINE AT PENITENTIARY; JAMAL HALSTON, OF SYRACUSE, TO RECEIVE AT LEAST 4 1/2 YEARS IN STATE PRISON, JUDGE SAYS.(Local)

Byline: Jim O'Hara Staff writer

A Syracuse man indicted last week on charges he smuggled drugs into the county correctional facility and sold them while serving weekend sentences there pleaded guilty in the case Tuesday in County Court.

Jamal Halston, 24, of 120 Walrath Road, pleaded guilty before Judge William Walsh to a felony count of third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, admitting he sold cocaine to another person June 19.

Halston was accused of making that sale to another inmate in the Onondaga County Correctional Facility in Jamesville. Halston also was accused of selling marijuana to the other inmate July 3 and with smuggling tobacco into ...

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