The final member of a Schuylkill County-based drug trafficking ring is on his way to a federal prison cell for more than five years after being sentenced in U.S. District Court.
Kevin "Joker" Carrington, 32, of Pottsville, must serve 63 months in a federal correctional institution under the terms of Senior U.S. District Judge A. Richard Caputo's April 4 sentence. Caputo also sentenced Carrington to pay a $500 fine and a $100 special assessment, and spend three years on supervised release after serving his sentence.
Carrington is one of three members of the 10-person drug ring sentenced to spend more than five years behind bars.
He is the last of the 10 members to be sentenced for his part in the ring, which prosecutors said distributed cocaine, cocaine base (crack cocaine), marijuana and methamphetamine in the county in 2008.
Carrington pleaded guilty Nov. 22, 2011, to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than five grams of cocaine, cocaine base, marijuana and methamphetamine.
A federal grand jury indicted him and the other nine ring members Oct. 7, 2008.
According to the indictment, the 10 obtained the drugs in New York and Schuylkill County and then distributed them in the county, and were willing to use violence to further the conspiracy.
The leader of the drug ring, Zachary Guichard, was sentenced to 68 months in prison.
The other co-defendants and their prison sentences include:
- Carlton Beckford: 63 months
- Haadee Bennett: 30 months
- Benjamin Broad: 26 months
- Aaron Dungan: 36 months
- Olando Guichard: 12 months
- Beth Koschak: 16 months
- Brianna Koschak: 16 months
- Dorthea Williams: 24 months
Assistant U.S. Attorney Francis P. Sempa prosecuted the case, while Christopher J. Osborne, Scranton, represented Carrington.