TOLEDO — A Marion man guilty of selling fentanyl will spend less than three years in prison, a federal judge ruled this week.

Shiloh S. Jackson, 30, of Marion, was charged with distribution of fentanyl last year in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

He entered a guilty plea to that charge in December and went before a federal judge on Monday for sentencing, according to court records obtained from PACER.

Judge Jeffrey J. Helmick ordered Jackson to spend two and a half years in prison and three years on supervised release, according to minutes of Monday’s proceeding.

The charge was leveled after law enforcement orchestrated a drug buy between a confidential informant and Jackson last year, according to court records.

Jackson originally faced drug-related charges in Marion County Common Pleas Court, but those charges were dismissed in July after federal prosecutors decided to pursue charges in the case.

In the federal case, Jackson was accused of selling $2,200 worth of fentanyl to a confidential informant during a controlled drug buy in March 2018 at a house in the 500 block of North Main Street, according to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Toledo.

The confidential informant thought he or she was buying an ounce of heroin, but an analysis by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation found that the drugs actually were made up of 21.43 grams of fentanyl, according to the complaint.

Jackson’s vehicle was pulled over by the police shortly after the drug buy near Mark and Park streets, and he was placed under arrest and searched, according to the complaint. Officers said they found the $2,200 that had been provided to the confidential informant in Jackson’s pocket, according to the complaint.

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