Is this the world's oldest drug dealer? 87-year-old granny jailed for selling crack cocaine from her living room sofa
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Caught: 87-year-old Ola Mae Agee was jailed for 18 months after being caught dealing from her home in Florida
America's oldest crack dealer will be celebrating her 88th birthday behind bars after police caught her dealing drugs from her living room.
Ola Mae Agee was sentenced to 18 months in prison after a jury found her guilty of one count of selling cocaine from her Florida home.
The 87-year-old pensioner was caught after an undercover police officer bought a £15 piece of crack from her in a drug sting.
The sentence means the grandmother will be spending some of her final years among hardened criminals and will not be released until she is almost 90-years-old.
CCTV footage that was played to the court showed the undercover officer knock on the back door of Agee's home in Pensacola on April 30 this year.
The policeman was led into the sitting room where Agee rummaged down the back of her couch and produced the small amount of crack.
The sting was not the first time the pensioner had been arrested for drugs offence.
Agee pleaded no contest in December 1996 to possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell, manufacture or deliver.
She later served two years of probation, which ended when she was 78, after pleading no contest to another drug dealing charge.
She also was arrested in February 1999 on two charges of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. One charge was dropped.
In the most recent case, she could have been jailed for as long as 15 years. It took the jury less than fifteen minutes to convict her.
‘She also had extensive other prior criminal history for other offences that went back a couple of years,' said Assistant State Attorney Greg Marcille.
'Based on the fact that she had continued to sell drugs over this period of time, we believe the prison sentence was appropriate in this case.'
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