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Office of the District Attorney P. David Soares Keith Kennedy Gets 8 Years for Heroin ALBANY , NY – District Attorney P. David Soares announced that KEITH KENNEDY, 31, of 844 Estes Street, Durham, North Carolina plead guilty today to one count of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 3 rd Degree. He faces a term of eight years with three years of Post Release Supervision. KENNEDY was arrested on May 3 rd 2005 in a basement apartment at 95 North Manning Boulevard in Albany , NY as the result of an investigation undertaken by the Albany County Sheriff’s Department. After making a number of controlled buys at KENNEDY’s address, Sheriff’s Department Deputies executed a search warrant on the house. When they entered the premises, they found KENNEDY in the bathroom flushing the product down the toilet. Deputies recovered a plastic bag containing over 2.2 ounces of pure heroin from the toilet and found on KENNEDY’s person 559 plastic bags, each containing a $25 hit of heroin. DA Soares reported that this was one of Albany ’s major heroin dealers. “We estimate that KENNEDY had over $90,000 worth of heroin in his possession at the time that the search warrant was executed. He also had an entire factory set up for the grinding, weighing, branding and packaging of the heroin for retail sale,” he said. Sentencing is scheduled for November 16, 2005 before the Honorable Thomas A. Breslin. Back to Press Releases For further information contact: Richard Arthur
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