UPDATE: Salisbury heroin dealer sentenced to 15 years in prison

A Salisbury heroin dealer has been sentenced, for drug trafficking heroin into Wicomico County.

On Wednesday, 40-year-old Jacqueline Sheppard, was sentenced to 15 years in the Maryland Division of Corrections. This is the minimum sentence due to Sheppard’s status as a repeat offender. The sentence stems from a June traffic stop, where Sheppard was stopped driving into Wicomico County, from Delaware.

A search of the 2014 Volkswagen revealed 201 grams of heroin and a Davis Industries P-380 semi-automatic handgun with a magazine containing two live rounds of live ammunition.

The stop then prompted a search of Sheppard’s New York Avenue home, in Salisbury, which revealed Central Machinery kilogram press with trace amounts of heroin, a digital scale with trace amounts of heroin, paraphernalia and a POF USA Rifle with a magazine and ten live rounds of ammunition.

Sheppard had prior convictions, prohibiting her from possession a gun.

In October, Sheppard’s trial revealed that she had driven to New Jersey to get the heroin. She was then convicted of possession of a large amount of heroin, importation of heroin into the state of Maryland, two counts of possession with the intent to distribute heroin, two counts of possession of heroin, drug trafficking, wear/carry a firearm during the commission of a drug trafficking crime, wear/ carry and transport a handgun in a vehicle, illegal possession of a regulated firearm, possession of a rifle by a disqualified person, and three counts of possession of paraphernalia.

Sheppard’s sentence is a mandatory minimum.