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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: October 7, 2008
Contact: Rich Isaacson
Number: (313) 234-4310

Detroit Man Sentenced to 16+ Years for Illegal Distribution of
Oxycodone in Kentucky
- Andre Lundy traveled to Kentucky from Michigan ten times to do drug deals

OCT 7 -- London, Ky. — Andre Deshawn Lundy, 36, of Detroit, Mich. was sentenced to 200 months in prison for knowingly and intentionally possessing with intent to distribute approximately 4,000 pills containing oxycodone.

In March of 2008, Lundy pleaded guilty to the charges and admitted that he and a coconspirator traveled south from Detroit for the purpose of distributing 270, 80 milligram tablets of OxyContin in the Eastern District of Kentucky. Lundy also admitted that he had made approximately ten similar trips to Kentucky, where he attempted to sell 300 to 450 dosage units of 80 milligram OxyContin tablets.

Under federal law, Lundy must serve 85 percent of his prison sentence, and, upon release, will be under the supervision of the United States Probation Office for 6 years. James A. Zerhusen, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Robert L. Corso, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and James Gray, Chief, Barbourville Police Department, jointly made the announcement today after yesterday’s sentencing.

The investigation was conducted by the DEA and the Barbourville Police Department. The United States was represented by Assistant United States Attorneys Stephen C. Smith and W. Samuel Dotson.