ST. CROIX — On Wednesday, August 19, 2015, Dwayne Friday, 37, pleaded guilty in District Court here to distribution of cocaine, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced on Thursday.
According to the plea agreement filed with the court, on November 19, 2014, Friday sold five baggies of cocaine to an undercover U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent on the Christiansted Boardwalk. In addition, on March 14, 2015, police responded to a citizen complaint that a male individual pointed a gun at another person on the Christiansted Boardwalk. Officers responded and approached the individual, later identified as Friday, who told police that he had a gun on him to protect himself and people on the boardwalk as he was doing security.
After Friday admitted that he did not have a license to carry the gun, the officers seized the gun. A subsequent search of Friday yielded 26 dime bags of white powdery substance, 13 artist cups of marijuana, 23 dime bags of marijuana and $373 in cash. Field tests determined that the white powdery substance was cocaine. Friday faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine on the drug charges and a mandatory consecutive sentence of five years and a $250,000fine on the gun charge.
This case was investigated by the Virgin Islands Police Department and the DEA. It is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Alphonso Andrews.
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