Man jailed for 2-5 years selling cocaine in Pottstown

NORRISTOWN » A Philadelphia man is on his way to state prison for illegal drug activity in Pottstown.

Tyjae M. Beverly, 39, of the 4100 block of Pennsgrove Street, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to two to five years in a state correctional facility after he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, specifically cocaine, in connection with a June 2017 incident in Pottstown. Judge Steven T. O’Neill imposed the sentence as part of a plea agreement.

Beverly will receive credit for the time he’s been in jail, while awaiting court action, since Aug. 7, 2017.

Other charges of criminal use of a communication facility, possession of cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia were dismissed against Beverly as part of the plea agreement.

With the charges, Pottstown police alleged Beverly delivered an amount of crack cocaine to a police informant during a prearranged meeting at a Pottstown location in June 2017. Court documents did not reveal the exact location of the meeting.

The deal was arranged via a phone conversation between Beverly and the informant, police said.

“The evidence from this controlled buy was sent to the lab for analysis and confirmed as containing cocaine,” investigators wrote in the arrest affidavit.