CONVICTED DRUG DEALER FACING UP TO 15 YEARS IN PRISON - SOLD
CRACK COCAINE TO UNDERCOVER DETECTIVE ON SIDEWALK IN FRONT OF
THE BRONX DA’S OFFICE
Bronx District Attorney Robert T. Johnson announced today that a 26-year-old Bronx man is facing up to15 years imprisonment for selling crack cocaine to an undercover narcotics detective. It was a routine ‘buy and bust’ operation except for the fact that the two “dime bags” of crack changed hands in the DA’s front yard, so to speak, the sidewalk in front of 198 East 161st Street, where the Office of the Bronx District Attorney is located.
Christian Yancy, of 790 Concourse Village West, was found guilty on one count of Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the 3rd degree, a Class B felony offense. The jury reached the verdict after approximately three hours of deliberations. State Supreme Court Justice Denis Boyle set sentencing for January 28, 2009 in Part T4. A Class B felony offense is punishable by a determinate sentence of as little as six years and as many as 15 years imprisonment for Yancy, a predicate offender. Yancy has a prior robbery conviction for which he was sentenced to five years probation.
The drug sale occurred May 16, 2007 at 3:30 in the afternoon, when Yancy sold an undercover detective $20 worth of crack cocaine. Yancy encountered the detective and negotiated the sale in front of a shoe repair shop about half a block away from the location where the drugs changed hands. Once the sale was made Young walked into the Concourse Plaza Mall where he was arrested in front of a bank.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Brian Gibbons.
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