FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, January 03, 2008
ESAK ABRAHAM PLEADS GUILTY IN U.S. FEDERAL COURT
Bill Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana, announced today that during a federal court session in Billings on January 3, 2008, before U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, ESAK ABRAHAM, a resident of Seattle, Washington, pled guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute crack cocaine. Sentencing is set for March 28, 2008. He is currently detained.
At the change of plea proceeding, the government stated it would have proved at trial the following:
From approximately November of 2003, up to an unknown date in 2006, in Billings and elsewhere ABRAHAM engaged in a conspiracy with several other individuals to possess with the intent to distribute over 50 grams of cocaine base a/k/a crack cocaine a/k/a rock cocaine or 5 kilograms of cocaine, a Schedule II controlled substance.
ABRAHAM faces possible penalties of a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison and could be sentenced to the maximum of life in prison, a $4,000,000 fine and 5 years supervised release.
Assistant U.S. Attorney James E. Seykora prosecuted the case for the United States.
The investigation was conducted by the Billings Big Sky Safe Streets Task Force.
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