PORTLAND (AP) — A New York man has been sent to federal prison for longer than six years for selling heroin and cocaine near a Lewiston school.
Corey Ray Howard was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Portland on four counts of aggravated drug trafficking and on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and violating conditions of release.
Police described the 35- year-old Howard as a career criminal with a number of past convictions for violent crimes, including a 1996 armed robbery.
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