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Springfield Man Pleads Guilty to Drug Charge
BOSTON, MA—A Springfield man was convicted yesterday in federal court of Distribution of more than 50 grams of Cocaine Base.
Acting United States Attorney Michael K. Loucks and Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Field Division, announced today that JAYSON TAVERNIER, age 26, of 28 Olive Street, Springfield, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Michael A. Ponsor to 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 the defendant sold over 50 grams of crack cocaine to a cooperating witness on August 12, 2006.
Judge Ponsor scheduled sentencing for October 7, 2009. TAVERNIER faces up to life imprisonment, to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release, and a four million dollar fine.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Gang Task Force, a Safe Street/HIDTA Initiative. It is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Alex J. Grant of Loucks’s Springfield Branch Unit. Press Releases | Boston Home
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