By NEAL WAGNER / Managing Editor

ALABASTER – A 40-year-old Alabaster man is facing up to 20 years in prison after police said he allegedly distributed crack cocaine in Alabaster on multiple occasions.

The Vestavia Hills Police Department arrested Ronny O’Neal Nabors, who lists an address on Old County Road 263 in Alabaster, on March 19 and charged him with two felony counts of distribution of a controlled substance and one count of violating his probation.

According to his arrest warrants, Nabors allegedly distributed crack cocaine on First Street South in Alabaster on Oct. 19, 2015, and again at 11^th Avenue Southeast in Alabaster on Oct. 22, 2015.

Nabors has a lengthy criminal record in Shelby County Circuit Court. He pleaded guilty to two drug-distribution charge in 2006, and has faced multiple other drug-distribution charges over the past several years.

When he was arrested on March 19, Nabors had three days left on his probation for the 2006 guilty plea on the drug-distribution charge, and is now facing a probation revocation on the previous charge.

Nabors currently is being held in the Shelby County Jail on bonds totaling $21,500, and is scheduled to appear in Shelby County District Court for a preliminary hearing on April 14 at 8:30 a.m.

Unlawful distribution of a controlled substance is a Class B felony, and is punishable by up to 20 years upon conviction.