A Manchester man was sentenced to four years in prison in Bell County Circuit Court recently.

In May, John Henry Hill, 45, was indicted on two counts of selling drugs within 1,000 yards of a St. Julians and being a persistent felony offender.

According to the indictment, in Dec. 2003 and Jan. 2004, Hill sold marijuana to a confidential informant for the Middlesboro City Police Department.

Pursuant to a plea-agreement, the persistent felony offender charge was dropped when Hill pleaded guilty to the two other charges.

In all, Hill was sentenced to eight years in prison (two four-year counts) but the sentences were set to run concurrently for a total of four years.

In other court news, Jessie Lee Davis, 24, of Middlesboro, was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to third-degree burglary.

Davis was indicted for breaking into the Laundry Matt at Colonial heights by kicking open the door and using a tire iron to pry open the coin boxes of five dryers with the intent to commit a crime.

Christina D. Raney, 29, of Middlesboro, pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of Methamphetamine Precursor.

According to the indictment, Raney knowingly possessed a drug product or combination of drug products containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine or phenylpropanolamine or their salts or isomers.

Raney was sentenced to 90 days in jail.