Chicago Man get Seven Years in Prison for Drug Charges

A Chicago man has been sentenced to over seven years in prison after being found to be transporting over 10 pounds of fentanyl and cocaine in Nebraska. 31-year-old Charlie Rea was sentenced to 75 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute mixtures containing cocaine and another mixture containing fentanyl. Rea was pulled over by a state trooper on Jan. 27, 2020 in Buffalo County for a traffic violation, according to the US Attorney’s Office. During the stop the trooper was told by Rea that he had marijuana in the vehicle. This led to a search of the vehicle where upon the trooper found five vacuum-sealed bricks of suspected drugs in a hidden compartment in the vehicle. When tested in a lab it was confirmed that three of the bricks were cocaine and two of the bricks tested positive for fentanyl. the weight of the cocaine bricks was 2.887 kilograms and the fentanyl bricks totaled 1.99 kilograms, according to officials. After his prison sentence, Rea will serve a five-year term of supervised release. There is no parole in the Federal system.