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.
Putnam County Investigators released video recordings of Ron Cummings and Misty Croslin taken during a drug sting.
The pair and three others were arrested last month for allegedly selling prescription pain killers oxycodone and oxycoton to an undercover officer.
Misty Croslin instructs Ronald on how the drug deal should go down.
“You just leave the pills right there and I’ll pick them up when I walk into the bathroom,” Misty says on the tape that was recorded in an undercover cop car.
Ronald Cummings seems extremely worried that if people find out he’s involved with drugs they would assume a connection to the disappearance of his daughter Haleigh. I guess he thought he could just get off like all the times before, because he never mentions being worried about anything else. Seems he worries way too much about how he is perceived.
“Please don’t ever tell no one that I did this shit,” he said. “People would go to assuming that I was a dope boy or pissed someone off. Dope boys don’t come and get your kids like that.”
This week, both Cummings and Croslin plead not guilty to drug charges and are sitting in jail hoping someone will raise their bonds.
In my opinion: Ronald Cummings is a child molestor that preys on underage girls and uses the drugs as bait, you might say jailbait. He has the drugs, they stay for the drugs.
