After sitting in jail for 408 days, the subject of a Central Ohio Drug Enforcement Task Force investigation was sentenced to 36 months in prison on Dec. 11 — a sentence that he has already served over one-third of the time.

Terry Bocook was arrested at his Lexington Avenue home on Oct. 30, 2018, for major drug-related charges. 

That same day, a man from Columbus was also arrested by CODE along U.S. Route 40. During the two arrests, law enforcement seized two pounds of methamphetamine that had the combined street value of $35,000, according to a press release from the incident.

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At the time, authorities were unable to say if the two arrests were related. It’s still unclear if the two individuals were involved in exchanging drugs.

As a result of the Bocook investigation, he was charged with one first-degree felony count trafficking with a major drug offender specification, a first-degree felony count of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity and one third-degree felony count of money laundering.

On Dec. 9, Bocook pleaded guilty to the one third-degree felony count of money laundering. Judge Mark Fleegle maxed out Bocook’s sentence by sending him to prison for 36 months.

In September 2018, Bocook had fronted one pound of methamphetamine to a man named Anthony Helphrey, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney John Litle said. Due to Helphrey violating his post-release control, he was arrested for escape which allowed another individual, Jonathan Stephen Harrier, to obtain the one pound of meth.

Harrier subsequently sold the meth and did not pay Bocook for the drugs.

As a result, CODE utilized a confidential informant to take controlled funds to Bocook as the exchange for the meth.

“And there was extensive discussion about the funds being the returned proceeds from the drug transaction and fronting additional pounds of methamphetamine and how the drug operation was operating between Terry and another individual,” Litle said.