MONTICELLO, NY — A 27-year-old Jeffersonville man has been sentenced to seven years in prison and five years of probation for illegally possessing a gun. He was also sentenced to three years in prison for possession of heroin with intent to sell, with the sentences running concurrently.

According to District Attorney Jim Farrell, Tyrell Simon admitted to the heroin charge that emerged in the wake of a car stop in the Village on Monticello in July of 2014, during which officers found seven grams of heroin.

A couple of months later, in September of 2014, he was arrested by the New York State Police after they found Simon in possession of 202 bags of heroin, suboxone and a loaded and stolen .22-caliber handgun. The handgun had been stolen from a residence in the Town of Thompson, and Simon also admitted to the weapon charge.

Under the terms of the plea agreement, Farrell said that the maximum sentence was nine years in state prison, and Farrell asked Judge Stephan Schick for the maximum.

Farrell described Simon as a “self-proclaimed street pharmacist of the most lethal kind” in requesting the maximum. Farrell said after the sentencing, “This defendant was selling heroin in Western Sullivan County and possessed a loaded and stolen handgun in pursuit of his illicit drug business. He was dealing poison. The New York State Police and the Monticello police put together a solid case against him and today he received a just punishment for his crimes. The sentence imposed today underscores my office’s commitment to holding drug dealers accountable and responsible for their crimes with state prison sentences.”

Simon also faces other charges in a federal indictment in White Plains for conspiracy to distribute heroin in Sullivan County. He was arrested in July of 2015 after an investigation by the FBI Safe Streets Task Force and the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He remains in federal custody pending the disposition of that case.