AKRON, Ohio — Summit County Prosecutor Elliot Kolkovich on Thursday announced the conviction and sentencing of a "major drug offender" who will now be required to spend more than a decade behind bars.
A jury found 29-year-old Akron native Allen Thompson guilty of aggravated trafficking of drugs and aggravated possession of drugs, both first-degree felonies. Summit County Common Pleas Judge Chrstine Croce then sentenced Thompson to between 11 and 16 1/2 years behind bars, in line with mandatory minimum guidelines.
Akron police and U.S. Marshals said they found 731 grams of methamphetamine inside Thompson's Eber Avenue home in September of 2022, along with a digital scale, a gun, bullets, and more than $9,000 in cash. He had been wanted on a federal warrant at the time, per prosecutors.
"Our community is safer with people like Thompson in prison. He was peddling this poison and impacting the lives of so many people," Kolkovich said in a statement. "Thank you to the Akron Police Department, members of the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force, my assistant prosecutors, and jurors who held this criminal responsible."
Thompson was also fined $10,000 and ordered to surrender both the money and the firearm seized from his home.