Convicted drug trafficker Kevin Joseph Jaimes, has been sentenced to 50 years in prison. He was also ordered to pay $1,900,000 in fines. He was convicted in April, following his 2023 arrest during a NETFORCE operation in Lee County. Assistant State Attorney Kate Rumley, Chief of Narcotics, and Assistant State Attorney Adam Sullivan prosecuted the case.
The defendant was sentenced as follows:
• Sale of Cocaine: 5 years in prison
• Possession of Cocaine: 5 years in prison
• Trafficking Cocaine 28-200 grams: 10 years in prison with a 3-year minimum/mandatory, $50,000 fine
• Trafficking Fentanyl 4-14 grams: 10 years in prison with a 3-year minimum/mandatory, $50,000 fine
• Conspiracy to Traffic Cocaine 28-200 grams: 10 years in prison with a 3-year minimum/mandatory, $50,000 fine
• Conspiracy to Sell or Deliver Fentanyl: 5 years in prison
• Conspiracy to Traffic Cocaine 28-200 grams: 10 years in prison with a 3-year minimum/mandatory, $50,000 fine
• Conspiracy to Traffic Cocaine 28-200 grams: 10 years in prison with a 3-year minimum mandatory, $50,000 fine
• Conspiracy to Traffic Methamphetamine 200 grams or more: 20 years in prison with a 15-year minimum/mandatory, $250,000 fine
• Conspiracy to Traffic Fentanyl 28 grams or more: 25 years in prison with a 25-year minimum/mandatory, $500,000 fine
• Conspiracy to Traffic Methamphetamine 28-200 grams or more: 10 years in prison with a 3-year minimum/mandatory, $250,000 fine
• Conspiracy to Traffic Fentanyl 28 grams or more: 25 years in prison with a 25-year minimum/mandatory, $500,000 fine
• Conspiracy to Traffic Cocaine 28-200 grams: 10 years in prison with a 3-year minimum/mandatory, $50,000 fine
• Conspiracy to Traffic Methamphetamine 28-200 grams: 10 years in prison, with a 7-year minimum mandatory, $100,000 fine
• Possession of Cocaine: 5 years in prison
Some charges are to run consecutive and some are to run concurrent. There are four co-defendants with pending cases.
NETFORCE was formed by State Attorney Amira Fox in conjunction with law enforcement agency partners, to coordinate a circuit-wide approach to infiltrating and dismantling drug trafficking organizations, organized crime, racketeering, and money-laundering enterprises in Southwest Florida.
Samantha Syoen – State Attorney’s Office Communications Director