Press Release
Methamphetamine Dealer Sentenced To 7 Years
For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of North Carolina
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced today a methamphetamine dealer to 84 months in prison, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Paul Corbi, 35, of Asheville, N.C. was also ordered to serve four years of supervised release following his prison term.
Daniel R. Salter, Special Agent in Charge of the Atlanta Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which oversees the Charlotte District Office and Sheriff Van Duncan of the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) join U.S. Attorney Rose in making today’s announcement.
According to filed documents and statements made in court, on July 18, 2014, law enforcement conducted a traffic stop of the vehicle Corbi was driving. During the course of the traffic stop, law enforcement recovered methamphetamine, some of which was packaged in a manner consistent with re-distribution, and a set of scales. They also found a plastic bag containing methamphetamine and $3,130 in cash in Corbi’s pockets. In total, law enforcement seized approximately 47 grams of methamphetamine, with an approximate street value of $4,700. According to court records, at the time of his arrest Corbi had several outstanding state arrest warrants, including one for assaulting a government employee in state court. In June 2015, Corbi pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
Corbi is currently in federal custody and will be transferred to the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons upon designation of a federal facility. All federal sentences are served without the possibility of parole.
The investigation was handled DEA and the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office. Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Kent of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Asheville prosecuted the case.
Updated March 29, 2016
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