A Carbon County man was sentenced to a long state prison term on Friday in the county court on drug dealing and firearms charges.

Robert T. Fisher, 55, of Palmerton, was sentenced to serve a total of 42 to 84 months in a state correctional institution by Judge Joseph J. Matika.

Fisher was sentenced on charges of firearms not to be carried without a license, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance - methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving under the influence of a controlled substance.

Fisher previously pleaded to the delivery charge for an incident on May 4, 2018, in Lehighton. He pleaded Friday to the firearms count for an incident on March 31, 2019, filed by state police at Lehighton. The DUI occurred on Sept. 20, 2017, also filed by state police at Lehighton. The paraphernalia charge occurred on Oct. 21, 2016, filed by state police at Lehighton. Fisher also pleaded to two counts of driving under suspension - DUI related and one count of false identification to law enforcement. The one suspension count occurred at the DUI arrest and the second at the firearms incident. The paraphernalia count occurred at the DUI stop.

Fisher has been an inmate in the county prison since last year, serving a parole/probation violation term.

On the DUI and suspension counts he was ordered to pay fines totaling $2,000 and one-year license suspension for each count and the DUI charge. He was also ordered to get both drug and alcohol and mental health evaluations, supply a DNA sample and pay court costs of about $1,000. He was given credit for 91 days already served on the charges.