The Tallahassee Democrat reported Adelson's relocation from the "Leon County Detention Facility to the custody of the Florida Department of Corrections," in December 2023. Adelson has been incarcerated since Nov. 6 after an eight-day trial. He was sentenced to "life in prison for first-degree murder and 30 years to run consecutively for conspiracy and solicitation" by Leon Circuit Judge Stephen Everett. "I would just like to say that I maintain my innocence," said Markel to the court, via CBS News.

Adelson was the fourth person to go down for Markel's murder. He enlisted the help of his girlfriend, Katherine Magbanua, who hired the "father of her two children, Sigfredo Garcia, to commit the murder." Garcia then asked his childhood friend, Luis Rivera. Both Magbanua and Garcia are serving life sentences for first-degree murder while Rivera received a 19 year sentence for testifying against his co-conspirators. However, there was still one more possible player in this twisted game.