Deja Vu all over again: Plea deal results in time served for three Class B felonies

Jason Brewer (Rochester Police photo)

DOVER - For a Milton Mills man facing more than 20 years in state prison today's sentencing at Stafford County Superior Court must have felt like Groundhog Day, the movie.

In a deal offered by prosecutors, Jason Brewer, 39, of Jug Hill Road, pleaded guilty to a single charge of drug possession in connection with a Sept. 10, 2020 arrest by Rochester Police.

The arrest on Winter Street by Rochester Police occurred as part of a joint effort with the U.S. Marshal's Fugitive Task Force on a bail violation.

After Marshals released Brewer to Rochester Police, they performed a search on a backpack in his possession at the time of the arrest, which revealed a quantity of methamphetamine, fentanyl and Subutex, a schedule III drug developed to help treat opiate addiction,

The 2020 case was finally disposed of today with Brewer having two of three charges nol prossed (not prosecuted) as part of the deal, while getting a year in jail sentenced for a single drug possession charge that could have carried a seven-year sentence. He'll serve no additional time however, as he had already served a year in jail awaiting trial.

Interestingly, Brewer got the exact same deal a few years ago from federal prosecutors, according to an April 30, 2019, story in The Rochester Voice.

That case revolved around a traffic stop on I-95 near the Hampton tolls on July 13, 2016, when a New Hampshire State Trooper observed Brewer commit multiple motor vehicle violations while driving northbound.

The trooper executed a traffic stop of Brewer's car, which also carried a passenger, Timothy Kondroski.

During the traffic stop, the trooper observed evidence of drug possession. While the trooper questioned Brewer and Kondroski, Kondroski fled and darted across four lanes of the interstate highway toward the barriers that divided the cash tolls from the open road tolling lanes, according to safety officials..

The trooper chased Kondroski, yelling at him to stop and eventually caught up to Kondroski at the barriers, which Kondroski was attempting to climb over. During the chase, Kondroski's sneakers fell off. When retrieving them from the roadway, the troopers found a bag containing approximately 35 grams of heroin. A second bag containing approximately one ounce of cocaine was recovered from inside one of Kondroski's sneakers.

Kondroski and Brewer both eventually admitted to buying the drugs in Lawrence, Mass. Kondroski further acknowledged that he paid $2,700 for the drugs and intended to sell them.

Brewer pleaded guilty in that case on Aug. 1, 2017, and was released after serving his sentence while awaiting trial.

Kondroski, meanwhile, was sentenced on Jan. 8, 2018, to 54 months in prison.

Assistant Strafford County Attorney Kathryn A. Smykowski who prosecuted the current case was not immediately available for comment or to reveal which of the two drug charges were nol prossed.