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Philly man gets state prison for drug count

A Philadelphia man pleaded guilty last Friday in Carbon County court to a drug dealing charge and was immediately sentenced to a state prison term.

Marion Kenneth Taylor, 27, pleaded to one count of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, heroin, before Judge Joseph J. Matika.He was arrested on Nov. 24, 2015, along Interstate 80 in East Side Borough by state police at Fern Ridge following a traffic stop. About 16 grams of heroin and 7 grams of cocaine were found in the vehicle.Matika sentenced him to serve 24 to 60 months in a state correctional institution, get a drug and alcohol evaluation, zero tolerance for drug and alcohol use, supply a DNA sample and pay court costs of about $1,000. On a summary offense of driving under suspension he was fined $200 and costs.Taylor is currently serving a seven and a half to 15 year state prison term imposed in Lycoming County on other drug charges. Matika ruled his sentence will run concurrent with that sentence.