One of the men convicted as part of a drug ring that went through Indiana and Westmoreland Counties was ordered to serve more time for racketeering charges.
US District Judge Stephanie Hanes last Friday ordered that 37-year-old Blake Young serve an additional 57 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release in the racketeering case. He was one of ten people, including two Cambria County Prison Employees, who were indicted in connection with an operation where the prison employees would be given money while K2, suboxone, cell phones and other contraband into the prison for them and the others would sell and distribute the drugs and other items.
Young was one part of Operation Lake Effect, and was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for a guilty plea in that case. Judge Haines ordered this new sentence to run consecutively to any other prison time.
One other person in the case, Mikal Davis of Philadelphia, was also sentenced last month to his part in the illegal operations. He was ordered to serve 15 years in prison and five years of probation for his part.
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