Cedar Rapids Man Who Sold Heroin Near a School Sentenced to Prison

A Cedar Rapids man who sold heroin near an intermediate school in Cedar Rapids was sentenced today to 41 months in prison.

Andre Daniel Wilks, age 45, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received the prison sentence after a November 19, 2018 guilty plea to distribution of a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school. 

Information disclosed at sentencing and at his plea hearing showed that Wilks was sentenced to federal prison in 2002 for his involvement in an offense involving over 3,000 grams of cocaine.  Wilks was discharged from his federal sentence in 2015.  In mid-2016 Wilks started selling heroin.  On March 30, 2017, Wilks sold heroin within 1,000 feet of a school in Cedar Rapids.  In total, Wilks was responsible for selling about 95 grams of heroin around the Cedar Rapids area.  Wilks has 24 prior criminal convictions dating back to the age of 18. 

Wilks was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Judge C.J. Williams.  Wilks was sentenced to 41 months’ imprisonment.  He was ordered to make payment of $100 to the special assessment fund.  He must also serve a 6-year term of supervised release after the prison term.  There is no parole in the federal system.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Ashley Corkery and investigated by the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Cedar Rapids Police Department’s Narcotics and uniform division. 

Court file information at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. 

The case file number is 18-CR-00084.

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