Lebanon Woman Sentenced to Prison for Conspiring to Deal Drugs
| U.S. Attorney’s Office December 03, 2009 |
Acting United States Attorney Robert S. Cessar announced today, December 3, 2009, that on December 2, Tracy J. Walters, a resident of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court in Johnstown to 18 months’ in prison on her conviction of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack.”
United States District Judge Kim R. Gibson imposed the sentence on Walters, age 26.
According to the information presented to the court by Assistant United States Attorney John J. Valkovci, Jr., from January 2007, to August 7, 2007, Walters conspired with five co-defendants to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin and five grams or more of cocaine base.
Mr. Cessar commended the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Laurel Highlands Resident Agency, the Cambria County Drug Task Force, and the Johnstown Police Department for the investigation leading to the successful prosecution of Walters.