Holyoke Woman Sentenced on Drug Charges
| U.S. Attorney’s Office July 28, 2009 |
SPRINGFIELD, MA—A Holyoke woman was sentenced on July 24, 2009 in federal court for Conspiracy and Distribution of Cocaine Base.
Acting United States Attorney Michael K. Loucks; Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Boston Field Division; Anthony R. Scott, Chief of the Holyoke Police Department; William J. Fitchet, Commissioner of the Springfield Police Department; Colonel Mark Delaney, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police; and Michael Ashe, Sheriff of Hampden County announced today that SARAH SUPERNAW, age 24, of Holyoke, Massachusetts, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael A. Ponsor to time served, to be followed by four years of supervised release. SUPERNAW pled guilty to Conspiracy and to two counts of Possession with intent to Distribute and Distribution of Cocaine Base on May 13, 2009.
At the earlier plea hearing, the prosecutor told the Court that had the case proceeded to trial the Government’s evidence would have proven that SUPERNAW, working with her co-conspirators, helped to sell crack cocaine on two occasions in November 2007.
The case was investigated by the FBI’s Western Massachusetts Gang Task Force, a Safe Street/HIDTA Initiative. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Alex J. Grant of Loucks' Springfield Branch Unit.
