By Mary Beth Lane
A former Detroit police officer
has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for supplying a criminal ring that ran
illegal drugs into Athens County.
County Common Pleas Judge
George McCarthy sentenced Brandon J. Allen on Friday after Allen pleaded guilty
to 12 crimes, including engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, or
racketeering.
Allen, 29, also pleaded guilty
to 10 counts of aggravated drug trafficking and one count of aggravated drug
possession, county Prosecutor Keller Blackburn said in a news release.
Allen also was ordered to pay
$100,000 to the prosecutor’s Law Enforcement Trust Fund to reimburse the county
for the cost of investigating the case.
Allen admitted supplying and
helping to run from Detroit a drug pipeline into Glouster, the center of a
criminal ring that primarily sold the powerfully addictive painkiller oxycodone
throughout Athens County.
Five local participants in the
ring have been sentenced to prison so far. Another alleged ring participant,
former Chauncey police chief Charles A. Wachenschwanz, 46, has pleaded not
guilty to racketeering and drug and weapons offenses.
