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Local man gets more than 20 years for drug trafficking

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The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District

of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Arrington, age 37, of

Harrisburg was sentenced today by United States District Court

Chief Judge Yvette Kane. Judge Kane sentenced Arrington to a 262-

month term of imprisonment; four years of supervised release;

$1,000 fine; and a $300 special assessment. Arrington’s federal

sentence is to be served consecutively to his state sentence.

According to United States Attorney Peter Smith, in 2009

federal and local investigators conducted an investigation of

heroin, cocaine, and marijuana trafficking in the Harrisburg area

by a group of state parolees. From mid-2008 to February 2009,

Arrington supplied the conspiracy with hundreds of thousands of

dollars worth of heroin, which was brought into the region from

New York, New York.

In 2009, shortly after the investigation was completed, the

primary participants in the enterprise were arrested, charged,

and ultimately sentenced. Eight participants were charged and

convicted with the primary distributors, Omar Davenport, and

Kareem Owens, receiving federal sentences of 200 months and 292

months, respectively. However, in March 2009, while the

investigation progressed, Arrington fled the area and his state

parole supervision.

In 2010, Arrington was arrested by authorities in Baltimore,

Maryland on unrelated offenses under a different name. He was

ultimately identified as the defendant in this case and brought

to United States District Court for the Middle District of

Pennsylvania for trial. After a three day trial in April 2012, in

which his co-conspirators identified Arrington as the source of

supply for the heroin to conspiracy, a federal jury convicted

Arrington of the offenses.

The investigation of this mater was conducted by the United

States Drug Enforcement Administration, the Dauphin County Drug

Task Force, the Pennsylvania State Police, and Middletown Borough

Police Department. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United

States Attorney Michael Consiglio.



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