Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Southern District of Illinois
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
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DeAnthony Tillman, 27, from East St. Louis, Illinois, was sentenced on March 7, 2014, in federal district court, in East St. Louis, Illinois, for distribution of cocaine, in the form commonly known as “crack" cocaine, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
Tillman was sentenced to 30 months in prison, three years of supervised release, fined $200, and ordered to pay $100 special assessment. Tillman, who previously pled guilty, admitted that on June 27, 2013, he sold two grams of cocaine base in the form of “crack" cocaine to a confidential informant in East St. Louis, Illinois, at the direction and arrangement of ATF agents.
This case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Daniel T. Kapsak.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
