A Shelton man accused of selling crack cocaine from his Howe Avenue apartment will spend 18 months in jail for a previous assault arrest.
Maurice Beall, 30, was sentenced Friday for a domestic dispute that happened in Shelton in August 2010.
He’s due back in court on Jan. 27 to answer to the drug charges.
Assault
Beall in September was arrested on a warrant for a domestic dispute with his girlfriend, in which police said he threw her to the ground and hit her several times. He was charged with a third-degree assault and violation of protective order.
Beall was also charged in October in Derby for violating terms of his probation from a conviction in 2005.
He was sentenced to a combined six years in jail, suspended after 18 months served, with three years probation.
Drug Bust
While out on bond for those two arrests, Beall was again arrested on Dec. 21, after Shelton and State Police raided his Howe Avenue apartment and found unspecified amount of crack cocaine — packaged and ready for sale. He has been held in custody every since.
Beall and Ansonia resident Samuel Smith were charged with possession of narcotics, possession with intent to sell and interfering with an officer.
Beall was also charged with risk of injury to a minor because there was a baby in the apartment at the time of the police raid on Dec. 21.
Police said Smith was also present at the apartment the day Beall assaulted his girlfriend. Smith is facing a third-degree assault charge in that case, as well.
Beall and Smith are both due back at Superior Court in Derby on Jan. 27 to answer to those charges.
Judge Burton Kaplan Friday said Beall’s sentence for the assault and violation charges won’t go into effect until after his court date on Jan. 27, although he will remain in lock up because he hasn’t posted a $150,000 bond.
