(Pittsburgh, Pa.) 30-year-old Dejuan Hill, of Aliquippa appeared in federal court on Monday and he was sentenced to five years in jail after being convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and possession with intent to distribute a half-kilogram or more of cocaine. He was also found guilty of a weapons violation due to a prior drug trafficking conviction in which he is no longer able to possess a firearm.
Prosecutors said that 49-year-old Cadee Akins of Monaca, who also appeared in Federal Court on Monday to plead guilty to drug charges, supplied Hill with cocaine between 2018 and 2020. During the course of the investigation, law enforcement conducted three controlled buys of cocaine from Hill at his home on Ann Street in Aliquippa.
A federal search warrant, issued after the drug buys also turned up a loaded handgun with an extended magazine containing 23 rounds of .45 caliber ammunition.