Misty Croslin Sentenced to 25 Years

Months after Ronald Cummings and Misty Croslin appeared in a series of undercover videos showing multiple drug deals, Misty is sentenced to the maximum penalty.

Misty Croslin was sentenced today to 25 years in prison on a drug trafficking charge.

Misty, Haleigh’s father, Ronald Cummings, Misty’s brother, Hank Croslin Jr., and two others were arrested were also arrested in January in an undercover sting and charged with selling prescription drugs.

Misty Cummings plead no contest to drug trafficking charges in August in a St. Johns County courtroom.

In August, Misty’s attorney, Robert Fields, told the judge that a “landslide of evidence,” including the undercover video, led to her to plead no contest.

Ronald Cummings and Hank Croslin Jr. have both received 15-year sentences.

Misty told Judge Wendy Berger that she was raped by two people between the ages of 7 and 14 while she was taking care of her great grandmother. She said that while Ronald Cummings was rough with her, it was an upgrade in her life and she loved him.

Misty was sentenced on the one count of trafficking in oxycodone in St. Johns County. She still awaits sentencing on seven counts of drug trafficking pending in Putnam County, where she could face up to 200 years.

Prosecutors said she could qualify for a reduced sentence as a youthful offender, since she was 17 at the time of the crime, which could reduce her sentence to between six and 25 years.

Authorities have maintained that the drug charges have no connection to the ongoing investigation of Haleigh’s disappearance, which they now consider a homicide case.

Even with little to no physical evidence, deputies are treating Haleigh’s disappearance as a homicide, and investigators have continued questioning the Croslins while in jail hoping to learn new information.

Ronald Cummings was sentenced to 15 years in prison for drug trafficking and ordered to pay $250,000 in fines.

Judge Terry Larue accepted Cummings guilty plea to three counts of trafficking in hydrocodone.

Two trafficking counts were dropped as part of Cummings’ plea agreement and he has agreed to “provide truthful testimony” in future cases, including the one involving his daughter’s disappearance, said Christopher Kelly, assistant state attorney and spokesman with the 7th Circuit State Attorney’s Office.

Misty Croslin was also involved in the same drug-trafficking case. She has plead no contest to six counts of trafficking in hydrocodone and two counts of trafficking in oxycodone.

She has tentative sentencing dates of Oct. 4 and Oct. 8 in those cases.

Still no arrests for missing Haleigh Cummings even though Hank Croslin Jr., Misty’s brother recentlyadmitted he saw Haleigh Cummings taken from her Satsuma home in a bag last year. His attorney James Werter has said and his cousin, Joe Overstreet, drove the girl to a Putnam County boat ramp and dumped into the St. Johns River.

Werter said Croslin and Overstreet went to the mobile home where Haleigh was being watched by Croslin’s sister, Misty Croslin.

He said Hank Croslin described the girl as limp and quiet.