OAKLAND — A Dublin man was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, a U.S. Justice Department spokesman said.
According to a plea agreement, Marques McCutcheon, 39, admitted that he had been previously convicted of a violent felony and a drug trafficking felony, and that he had been in a car parked outside an Oakland liquor store on May 18, 2017.
When police arrested McCutcheon that day, an officer’s search yielded 83 grams of crack cocaine wrapped in twelve small plastic bags, as well as $887 in cash that McCutcheon described as trafficking proceeds.
A federal grand jury indicted him July 21, 2018 on a single count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine base in crack cocaine form. McCutcheon pleaded guilty on Oct. 22, 2018.
At Wednesday’s sentencing, U.S. District Court Judge Haywood Gilliam Jr. found that McCutcheon qualified for a longer sentence based on his qualifications as a career offender based on federal guidelines, and ordered a five-year supervised-release term after his release from prison.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Green prosecuted the case, which resulted from an investigation by Berkeley police with help from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with help from Elyza Delgado.
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