Leader of Multi-State Drug Trafficking Organization to be Sentenced on Wednesday

Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that Eric Scott, age 40, will be sentenced on Wednesday, July 12th, at 10:00 A.M.  The sentencing hearing will take place in the Clement F. Haynsworth Federal Building, 300 East Washington Street, Greenville, South Carolina, before the Honorable Timothy M. Cain, U.S. District Judge.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Andy Moorman, Deputy Narcotics Chief for the Narcotics Unit, was the lead prosecutor. 

The Drug Enforcement Administration, the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division, the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office, the Anderson Police Department, the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office, the Greenville Department of Public Safety, the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office, the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the Richland County Sheriff’s Office, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, the Franklin County (GA) Sheriff’s Office, and the Douglas County (GA) Sheriff’s Office investigated the case. 

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