William Eddins, State Attorney for the First Judicial Circuit, announced this week that on Friday, December 19, a Santa Rosa County Jury found Jonathan Wayne Glass, 38, guilty of trafficking in methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia. Immediately following the trial, Santa Rosa County Circuit Court Judge John F. Simon sentenced Glass to 10 years in the Department of Corrections with a minimum mandatory of 3 years. Judge Simon ordered the 10 year sentence to run consecutively to a 15 year prison sentence he had previously imposed on Glass in September.
On February 21, 2013, members of the Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Unit executed a search warrant at the residence Glass shared with his girlfriend, Victoria Cain at Piney Woods Place Apartments in Milton. During the execution of the search warrant, officers found a trafficking amount of methamphetamine along with drug paraphernalia and numerous other items used to manufacture methamphetamine. The search warrant had been obtained after Glass brought sulfuric acid into the home on February 20, to use during the process of manufacturing methamphetamine. Glass left the bottle of acid on a bathroom counter where a 3 year old child drank the acid. As a result, Glass was charged and convicted on September 18, 2014 by a Santa Rosa County Jury of child neglect causing great bodily harm, permanent disability, or permanent disfigurement. Judge Simon sentenced the defendant to 15 years in prison in that case.
Glass is also charged with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine and unlawful possession of listed chemicals. Those charges are set for trial on January 20, 2015. He faces a maximum possible sentence of 30 years in prison in that case.
Victoria Cain was also arrested as a result of her involvement and entered a plea to aggravated child abuse, child abuse causing great bodily harm, trafficking in methamphetamine, possession of controlled substance, possession of paraphernalia, possession of prescription drugs without prescription, conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine and unlawful possession of listed chemical. Cain testified at both trials against Glass. She is set for sentencing on February 4, 2015 before Circuit Judge Marci Goodman and faces a maximum possible sentence of 135 years.
Amber Rowland and Stephanie Pace prosecuted the cases for the state.
This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: Glass sentenced to 10 years