LEWISTON – A local man described as a career offender was sentenced Wednesday to spend 30 years in federal prison on charges of drug trafficking.
George Washington, a 33-year-old Lewiston man also known as Anthony Long, was convicted in October on charges that he dealt crack cocaine in the Twin Cities.
Washington was sentenced after a hearing Wednesday morning in U.S. District Court in Portland. According to prosecutors, he sold crack to an undercover informant on two occasions in April 2003.
The informant was working for the federal Drug Enforcement Administration as they investigated crack dealing in the Lewiston area, investigators said.
Police said each sale of crack involved more than five grams of the drug.
Washington was arrested June 3 in 2003 when federal agents stormed his downtown Lewiston apartment.
The DEA and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency conducted the investigation that led to Washington’s arrest as part of the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force.
Washington was convicted by a jury Oct. 16. As part of his sentence, he was ordered to 10 years of supervised release once he is freed from federal prison.
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