Furlow was sentenced to 54 years after a Highland County bench trial.

A prison term imposed after a guilty verdict is the judgment. On Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, Judge Rocky Coss sentenced Shayvion Furlow, 34, of Dayton, to 54 mandatory years after a Highland County bench trial. The Highland County Press reported that the term can reach 59.5 years under Ohio’s Reagan Tokes Law, with $97,500 in fines and forfeiture of $52,491.15 and four semi-automatic pistols.

The Highland County Press reported that Furlow waived a jury and that Judge Coss began hearing evidence Monday. The paper’s account opened by saying he was found guilty of 22 counts, including engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity and a major-drug-offender specification. Later in the same article, the paper said Coss found him guilty of all 19 counts, with findings on the drug amounts, a major-drug-offender finding, and forfeiture of five of six items in the forfeiture specification. The indictment the paper listed was one first-degree count of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, nine trafficking counts and nine possession counts involving a fentanyl-related compound, and one count of having weapons while under disability, plus those specifications. The 54-year sentence is the judgment on the verdict the court announced. The paper used both 22 and 19.

The consecutive terms the Highland County Press reported add up to 54 years: 11 years each on the corrupt-activity count and two first-degree trafficking counts, three years each on six first-degree trafficking counts, two years on a second-degree trafficking count, and 12 months on the weapons-under-disability count. The paper reported that several offenses merged for sentencing. The fines are $97,500. Ordered forfeited, the paper reported, were $52,491.15 and four semi-automatic pistols with one magazine each. Under the Reagan Tokes Law, the same account said, he could serve up to 59.5 years. Those figures are the sentence.

Defense attorney Alex Deardorff argued the case belonged in Montgomery County because the exchanges were in the Dayton area. Judge Coss overruled that motion. The Highland County Press quoted him: venue in Highland County was appropriate on the evidence and the case law, so the motion to dismiss was overruled. Prosecutor Anneka Collins called it the biggest fentanyl case Highland County has ever had, and the paper reported she told the court nearly 850 grams of fentanyl were recovered at Furlow’s residence. That description is the argument the judge heard. The judgment is the verdict and the 54-year term.

The Highland County Press reported that, in a separate entry, Coss ordered that Furlow may be released on a $500,000 bond if he files a notice of appeal. An appellate-bond order is a condition on a future filing. It is not a release, and it does not undo the sentence. Furlow declined to speak at sentencing, the paper reported.