HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — A 50-year-old Huntsville man will spend 30 years in prison after admitting to trafficking cocaine, in what the Alabama Attorney General’s Office says is only the second conviction won with help from a 2023 state law named for a fallen Huntsville officer.
Fabian Scott entered a guilty plea to a single count of cocaine trafficking, which is a Class A felony under Alabama law. Comer handed down the 30-year term.
Detectives from the STAC Team of the Huntsville Police Department worked the case with agents of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, digging into a drug ring that operated in Madison County.
Investigators relied on expanded investigative tools allowed under the Agent Billy Clardy III Act. Clardy, a Huntsville police agent, was killed in 2019 during an investigation into a large drug trafficking operation, and state lawmakers approved the act carrying his name four years later.
Attorney General Steve Marshall described the sentence as a tribute to Clardy and said the law gives officers stronger ways to build cases against trafficking networks while also helping keep them safe on the job.
Marshall thanked the state law enforcement agency, the Huntsville police unit and the district attorney’s office for their work on the case.
The sentence closes one of the first prosecutions to test the Clardy law in court. State officials have pointed to the act as a way to reach the people running trafficking groups, not only street-level sellers, and the Madison County result is the second time they say it has led to a conviction.
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