WILLIAMSPORT — A member of a central Pennsylvania drug organization that had been a fugitive has pleaded guilty in U.S. Middle District Court.
Antwyne M. Lewis, 26, of Philadelphia, Wednesday entered a plea to a charge of conspiracy to possess and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine in Northumberland, Snyder and Union counties.
Lewis admitted he is responsible for 60.5 grams of crack cocaine, which Shamokin Dam police found in a motel room in July 2003. After arraigned on local charges, Lewis posted bail and was a fugitive until his arrest in Philadelphia in November 2008.
While a fugitive, he was stopped in Philadelphia and Pottstown, but police there were unaware he was wanted because he provided false names, Assistant U.S. Attorney George J. Rocktashel said.
Lewis and the others were indicted by a federal grand jury in 2004. The charge to which he pleaded guilty alleged he began participating in the drug operation in 2002 and worked closely with co-defendant Demetrius Green, who is serving a 30-year term.
Lewis, who Rocktashel said was neither an organizer nor supervisor, would stay in homes and motels in the area that served as drug distribution points. On occasion, sales from a Lewisburg motel amounted to $10,000 a day, he said.
Lewis is the last of seven members of the drug organization to be prosecuted. Lewis remains detained pending sentencing that will not occur until next year.
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