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Holyoke Woman Pleads Guilty to Drug Charges
SPRINGFIELD, MA—A Holyoke woman was convicted yesterday in federal court of Conspiracy and Possession with intent to Distribute and Distribution of Cocaine Base.
Acting United States Attorney Michael K. Loucks; Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Boston Field Division; Anthony R. Scott, Chief of the Holyoke Police Department; William J. Fitchet, Commissioner of the Springfield Police Department; Colonel Mark Delaney, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police; and Michael Ashe, Sheriff of Hampden County announced today that SARAH SUPERNAW, age 24, of Holyoke, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Michael A. Ponsor to Conspiracy and two counts of Possession with intent to Distribute and Distribution of Cocaine Base.
At yesterday’s plea hearing, the prosecutor told the Court that had the case proceeded to trial the Government’s evidence would have proven that SUPERNAW, working with her co-conspirators, helped to sell crack cocaine on two occasions in November 2007.
Judge Ponsor scheduled sentencing for July 24, 2009. SUPERNAW faces up to 40 years imprisonment, to be followed by up to a lifetime of supervised release, and a $2 million fine on each of the three counts to which she pleaded guilty.
The case was investigated by the FBI’s Western Massachusetts Gang Task Force, a Safe Street/HIDTA Initiative. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Alex J. Grant of Loucks' Springfield Branch Unit. Press Releases | Boston Home
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