WHITE PLAINS – A Rockland County drug dealer has been sentenced in federal court to 17 years in prison for drug trafficking and violent crimes, including a brutal beating and robbery of a victim in New City.
Wayne Hicks, 32, also known as “Weez,” previously pled guilty to robbery, travel act assault, conspiracy to distribute marijuana, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
It was alleged that Hicks, a marijuana dealer, directed two acts of violence to support his drug business.
In one incident, after a marijuana dealer who worked for him was robbed, Hicks arranged for a co-conspirator to shoot one of the robbers.
In another case, after another marijuana dealer who worked for Hicks was robbed, Hicks contacted brother and others, to lure a man believed to be involved in the robbery, and attack him, forcing him to strip, stealing his belongings including pot, and beating him with a baseball bat, belts, their hands and feet and slashing and stabbing him with a large knife. The victim eventually fled after being left naked and covered in blood in a snowbank.
The other individuals who carried out that attack were convicted along with Hicks.
