Robert Sylva, 50, a 22-year veteran of the police force, pleaded guilty in December to selling the drug in a parking lot on Ward Avenue on March 21 last year while wearing his uniform. As part of a plea agreement, two other charges of selling smaller amounts of the drug to the informant the same month were dropped.

Sylva is no longer a police officer, according to police.

Sylva faced a prison term of 87 months to 108 months under the federal guidelines, but Assistant U. S. Attorney Michael Kawahara cited the former officer's cooperation and asked that he be sentenced with a lower range of 63 months to 78 months. U. S. District Judge David Ezra imposed the sentence.