{"id":27216,"date":"2015-08-20T23:55:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T23:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/?p=27216"},"modified":"2015-08-21T00:14:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T00:14:55","slug":"st-croix-man-pleads-guilty-to-cocaine-distribution-faces-1-million-fine-over-20-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.viconsortium.com\/?p=27216","title":{"rendered":"St. Croix Man Pleads Guilty To Cocaine Distribution, Faces $1 Million Fine, Over 20 Years In Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. CROIX &#8212; On Wednesday, August 19, 2015, Dwayne Friday, 37, pleaded guilty in\u00a0District Court here to distribution of cocaine, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute\u00a0and carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe\u00a0announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the plea agreement filed with the court, on November 19, 2014, Friday sold five\u00a0baggies of cocaine to an undercover U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent on the\u00a0Christiansted Boardwalk. In addition, on March 14, 2015, police responded to a citizen complaint that a\u00a0male individual pointed a gun at another person on the Christiansted Boardwalk. Officers responded and\u00a0approached the individual, later identified as Friday, who told police that he had a gun on him to protect\u00a0himself and people on the boardwalk as he was doing security.<\/p>\n<p>After Friday admitted that he did not\u00a0have a license to carry the gun, the officers seized the gun. A subsequent search of Friday yielded 26\u00a0dime bags of white powdery substance, 13 artist cups of marijuana, 23 dime bags of marijuana and $373\u00a0in cash. Field tests determined that the white powdery substance was cocaine. Friday faces a\u00a0maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine on the drug charges and a mandatory\u00a0consecutive sentence of five years and a $250,000fine on the gun charge.<\/p>\n<p>This case was investigated by the Virgin Islands Police Department and the DEA. It is being\u00a0prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Alphonso Andrews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. CROIX &#8212; On Wednesday, August 19, 2015, Dwayne Friday, 37, pleaded guilty in\u00a0District Court here to distribution of cocaine, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute\u00a0and carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe\u00a0announced on Thursday. 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