MONTICELLO – A Monticello man, who has been in trouble with the law in the past, was sentenced in Sullivan County Court on Wednesday to 10 years in prison and two years of parole for his conviction of two counts of felony criminal sale of a controlled substance.
Thomas Singleton, 35, admitted to selling 10 decks of heroin to an undercover police officer in April 2014 in the Village of Liberty and again in May in the Town of Thompson.
Singleton was sentenced as a second felony offender. His previous conviction dealt with criminal possession of drugs as a felony in the Bronx in 2013.
“Most of his prior involvement with the law either distribution or possession of narcotic drugs,” District Attorney James Farrell said. “In this case he was distributing and trafficking in heroin,” he said. “One of the things that we have made a priority here in Sullivan County based upon what we see going on in our community with heroin destroying a large segment of our community, we are very, very proactive in our investigations of those people who seek to traffic in this dangerous drug.”
This latest case was investigated by the State Police Community Narcotics Enforcement Team.
