Alabama Man’s Minor Role In Heroin Transaction Leads To 18 Month Prison Sentence

The following press release was published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys on Oct. 1, 2015. It is reproduced in full below.

SCRANTON--The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 19-year-old Alabama man was sentenced to 18 months in prison today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley in Scranton, for playing a minor role in a single heroin transaction in October 2014.

According to United States Attorney Peter Smith, the defendant, Corey Wortham, of Montgomery, Alabama, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin. Wortham admitted to traveling from Alabama to Luzerne County to participate with others in a heroin transaction on Oct. 11, 2014. Agents arrested Wortham and others after the transaction.

Wortham was indicted by a federal grand jury in October 2014, as a result of an investigation by agents of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and Kingston Police Department.

Judge Munley ordered Wortham to serve three years on supervised release following his prison sentence.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Francis P. Sempa prosecuted the case.

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