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A 46-year-old city man received a 25 year prison sentence for his part in a drug trafficking resulting in a rash of heroin overdoses in 2017.
Raymond Howard recently was sentenced to 300 months’ imprisonment followed by a four-year term of supervised release by U.S. Middle District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann.
According to Acting U.S. Attorney Bruce D. Brandler, Howard was found guilty after a five-day jury trial in October 2020 to conspiring to distribute heroin and a mixture of heroin and carfentanil.
During a three-day period in June 2017, there was a rash of drug overdoses in the city and region.
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