LIMA — A man caught with $25,000 in cocaine was sentenced this week to six years in prison.
James E. Fisher, 41, was sentenced on the charge of possession of cocaine, a first-degree felony. Judge Richard Warren also issued a $5,000 fine.
Lima Police received information on Nov. 12, that Fisher was traveling south on Interstate 75 with a large amount of drugs in his GMC Yukon. Police located the vehicle on Bellefontaine Avenue in Lima, according to court records.
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Fisher parked the vehicle in the 200 block of Calumet Avenue and entered a house. Police used a drug dog to walk around the vehicle and it detected drugs inside. Police approached the home and there was no answer to their request to enter. Officers looked through a window and saw Fisher and another man, according to court records. They continued knocking on the door and the other man answered. They told the man a dog indicated drugs were inside the vehicle and it would be impounded. The man said Fisher had already left the house, according to court records.
Officers told the man they knew Fisher still was inside the home. The man went back inside the house and returned to tell officers Fisher would not come out and would not provide the keys to his vehicle, according to court records.
Police broke out the window to the vehicle to get inside and found nearly a pound of powdered cocaine in the center console. Police yelled to Fisher he was under arrest and the other man opened the door allowing police to see Fisher. Police asked Fisher to come outside and he did, according to court records.
During the busts, police also found 14 hollow point .44 magnum rounds in the console where they found the cocaine.
Fisher said he has 12 children from eight different women and has an medical condition that requires him to pay for expensive medicines.
