An acquaintance of hers was working as a confidential informant (CI) for the police, and called Cynthia. In the spring of 2002, she chose to sell some of her own pills to make a little money to help make ends meet. Over the years, Cynthia’s diabetes worsened, and she began taking the prescription medication Lorcet, which contains hydrocodone, for severe pain in her legs. When she was released from the hospital after five months, her grandmother Cynthia took on a major part of the responsibility of raising her. Jackie had a premature daughter, Precious, who weighed less than two pounds at birth. (At the time of her arrest she was raising a niece.) On disability because of uncontrollable diabetes, Cynthia focused her life on raising her daughter and helping out with other family members’ kids. Jackie’s father left when the baby was only a month or two old.
At age 17, she dropped out of high school and gave birth to a daughter, Jackie. “Stomp” was born in a small town in Alabama. She had the nickname ‘Stomp’ because she was always dancing and stomping around. “As a child herself, she was always a happy kid. “Cynthia’s life has always been her family and kids,” says her cousin, Ericka Richards. Cynthia Powell sold 35 hydrocodone tablets, which weighed 29.3 grams, about the weight of a slice of bread. Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses like Cynthia’s were designed to deter drug trafficking by punishing severely the kingpins and other “major players” in Florida’s drug trade.
The sale was for $300.įor this offense, she is serving a 25-year mandatory minimum sentence in a Florida state prison. It was in this van that Cynthia Powell sold pills containing hydrocodone to an undercover police officer. On April 11, 2002, a battered green minivan pulled up to a Starbucks parking lot in Sunrise, Florida.
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