Brittany Nicole Miles, 37, of Lexington, has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for possessing a firearm during a drug trafficking crime.

Evidence obtained in the investigation revealed that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department utilized a confidential informant to conduct a controlled purchase of methamphetamine and a firearm from Miles. Miles agreed to sell approximately 2 ounces of methamphetamine and a firearm to the informant.

Miles directed the informant to meet her at her public storage unit in West Columbia. The informant arrived and Miles and her co-defendant arrived a short time later. Upon arriving, Miles provided the informant with 2 ounces of methamphetamine and a gun.

United States District Judge Joseph F. Anderson, Jr. sentenced Miles to 60 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by a five-year term of court-ordered supervision. There is no parole in the federal system. Miles will begin to serve her federal sentence after she is released from serving a state sentence in the South Carolina Department of Corrections.

This case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney William K. Witherspoon is prosecuting the case.