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GOSHEN – A Newburgh man pled guilty in Orange County Court on Tuesday to felony criminal possession of a controlled substance for having sold fentanyl on January 4, 2017.
Under the plea agreement by Damion Jackson, 36, also known as “Toto,” will receive a sentence of nine years in state prison and two years of post-release supervision when sentenced in July.
Jackson had been charged by an Orange County grand jury with 13 counts of drug sales, 15 counts of criminal possession of drugs as the result of an investigation by the Orange County Drug Task Force. Jackson has also been charged by the New York State Organized Crime Task Force as part of their “Operation Yellow Brick Road” enforcement action, which targeted Newburgh’s “600 Gang” and which resulted in a 172-count indictment charging 16 members of a large, violent narcotics trafficking rink operating in the Hudson Valley, selling heroin and cocaine in Newburgh and other areas of Orange County.
The Organized Crime Task Force alleged that Jackson was a higher-level member of the 600 Gang.
“My office will work with all of law enforcement partners to bring large scale narcotics dealers to justice,” said Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler. “Those who peddle these lethal substances, particularly fentanyl, for profit, in the quantities that this defendant was selling, deserve severe prison sentences. Far too many lives have been lost to opioids to all large scale narcotics dealers to continue to operate in Orange County.”
