New York City Man Sentenced to Five Years for Oxycodone Trafficking

New York City Man Sentenced to Five Years for Oxycodone Trafficking

The following press release was published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys on Nov. 19, 2014. It is reproduced in full below.

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that William

Waters, 33, of Bronx, New York, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge

John A. Woodcock, Jr., to five years in prison and three years of supervised release for

possession with intent to distribute oxycodone. Waters pled guilty on March 31, 2014.

Court records reveal that on March 15, 2013, the defendant and Ebony Howard were

encountered by officers with the Waterville Police Department who had information that Waters

and Howard were travelling with a large number oxycodone tablets. Waters and Howard were

driven to police headquarters where officers seized 645 oxycodone 30 mg tablets from

Howard. Waters admitted that Howard was doing him a favor transporting the pills, that he got

them in New York City and that he intended to distribute them to customers in Maine. At

sentencing, Waters was identified as a courier for a central Maine drug dealer, Maurice McCray,

who was sentenced yesterday.

In imposing sentence, Chief Judge Woodcock told Waters that his name was “all over the

Maurice McCray case" and told him the March 15th event in Waterville was “not a one-time

event."

The case was investigated by the Waterville Police Department, with assistance from the

Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys

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