A Chesapeake man will spend the next decade behind bars for selling prescription pills.

Esmond Roach, 60, of 717 Second Ave., was arraigned on a first-degree count of aggravated trafficking in drugs Wednesday in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court.

The indictment stated Roach sold or attempted to sell 75 and a half oxycodone pills in the vicinity of a school. The indictment also stated the man had $4,586 in cash on him when he was arrested.

Roach pleaded guilty to the charge, as well as four fourth-degree counts of trafficking in drugs (oxycodone) from a separate indictment.

Judge Charles Cooper sentenced the man to 10 years in prison, a $10,000 fine and a five-year driver’s license suspension. Roach was also ordered to forfeit the $4,586 to the Lawrence Drug and Major Crimes Task Force.

In an unrelated case, a Coal Grove man answered two second-degree felonious assault charges in Judge D. Scott Bowling’s courtroom.

Kenneth Corbin, 27, of 302 Washington St., pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity.

According to a police report, Corbin assaulted his father with a razor blade, as well as the officer who responded to the incident.

“I stabbed him to make sure he wasn’t a robot,” Corbin said of his father, according to the report.

Bowling ordered a competency evaluation for Corbin.

In other cases:

• Irene Abbott, 30, of 92 Gary Malone St., South Point, admitted community control sanctions violations that she failed to report to the adult probation department. Bowling sentenced the woman to 30 days in jail and 200 additional hours of community service.

• Linda McFann, 48, of 1979 County Road 25, Pedro, pleaded guilty to a fifth-degree count of aggravated possession of drugs (heroin). Bowling sentenced the woman to four years CCS under intensive supervised probation, outpatient drug counseling and 200 hours community service.

• Nicholas Chapman, 32, of 918 Township Road 309, Chesapeake, pleaded guilty to a third-degree count of trafficking in drugs (meth) in the vicinity of a juvenile. Bowling sentenced the man to four years CCS/ISP, a total of $10,000 in fines, three months GPS home monitoring and a six-month driver’s license suspension.

• Tina Peterson, 36, of 163 Township Road 1007, Chesapeake, pleaded guilty to five fourth-degree counts of trafficking in drugs (meth and oxycodone) and a fourth-degree count of trafficking in marijuana.

Bowling sentenced the woman to a total of five years in prison, a $5,000 fine and a one-year driver’s license suspension.

• Paul Lowe, of 126 Private Drive 411, Ironton, was arraigned on a bill of information of fourth-degree counts of disrupting a public service and grand theft of a motor vehicle.

Lowe pleaded not guilty and Bowling set bond at $10,000 cash or surety.

• Leo Adger Sr., 69, of 2675 Tremainsville, Toledo, was arraigned on a fourth-degree count of trafficking in drugs and misdemeanor counts of possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana, to which he pleaded not guilty. Bowling set bond at $10,000 cash or surety.

• Charles Parks, 25, of 1096 Reinhard Ave., Columbus, was arraigned on two fourth- and two fifth-degree counts of trafficking in crack cocaine, to which he pleaded not guilty. Bowling set bond at $50,000 cash or surety and own-recognizance.

• Jason Ratcliff, 34, of 47 Township Road 1334, South Point, was sentenced to four years CCS/ISP, STAR, 200 hours of community service and a $1,250 fine for a fifth-degree count of possession of drugs.

• Toni Burns, was arraigned on a bill of information of fifth-degree theft of checks, to which she pleaded guilty. Judge Cooper ordered a pre-sentence investigation and set sentencing for Oct. 9.

• Stephen Douglas, 31, of 1017 County Road 52, Ironton, pleaded guilty to a fourth-degree charge of receiving stolen property. Cooper set sentencing for Oct. 9.

• Ashley Bailey, 29, of 52 Private Drive 103, South Point, pleaded guilty to a fifth-degree count of theft from the elderly and a misdemeanor count of possession of drugs. A count of second-degree burglary was dismissed.

Cooper set sentencing for Oct. 16.

• Rosetta Gunter, 26, of 317 Vernon St., Ironton, admitted CCS violations and was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail. Cooper also extended the woman’s CCS until 2015.

• Richard Counts, 51, of Country Hearth Motel Room 410, South Point, was arraigned on charges of second-degree trafficking in drugs (meth), fifth-degree possession of criminal tools and misdemeanor possession of drug abuse instruments, to which he pleaded not guilty.

Cooper set bond at $50,000 cash or surety.