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Allen Evans, of Copiague, was sentenced to ten years in prison, Acting Nassau County District Attorney Joyce Smith announced on Thursday, Sept. 23.
Evans pleaded guilty to second-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and second-degree conspiracy on Monday, July 26.
“High-level drug dealers have flooded our communities with narcotics during the pandemic, resulting in increased overdoses that destroy lives and kill people,” Acting DA Smith said. “This defendant was selling up to a kilogram of cocaine at a time to other dealers who distributed it throughout the county.
"Allen Evans was prosecuted as part of Operation Honeycomb, an investigation that dealt a significant blow to the illegal drug trade – and it’s violence – in Hempstead.”
Smith said Evans and others who were arrested as a result of the 18-month investigation acted as distributors to a number of drug dealers in Nassau County.
Investigators found that over a four-month period in 2020, Evans sold cocaine with an estimated street value of $300,000, the DA's Office reported. He would sell between one-half of a kilogram and a kilogram at a time.
On Nov. 13, 2020, Evans was stopped in a car and found in possession of a kilogram of cocaine. He was arrested by Nassau County Police for that incident, and then re-arrested in March of this year as part of the Operation Honeycomb indictment, Smith said.
The DA's Office said cocaine prices rose during the pandemic, and Evans was selling a kilogram of cocaine for more than $51,000 at certain points.
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