A pair of Lancaster city-based drug dealers – both with extensive criminal histories – will serve state prison terms for drug sales under police surveillance.

Jose Valentin will serve 3½ to 8 years in prison for selling heroin and suboxone in January 2018 on North Cherry Street.

George Smith Jr. will serve 2½ to 5 years for selling methamphetamine last summer on North Queen Street.

Valentin is 45, has 10 children and has no verifiable work history. He has been in court every year since he was a juvenile aside from a stretch from 2008 to 2010.

Smith is 37, has nine children and a decades-long criminal history. He admitted to not using drugs, meaning he was selling for the financial profits.

Assistant District Attorney Deborah Greathouse prosecuted the cases.

Lancaster city police Selective Enforcement Unit investigated and filed charges.

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