A former Indiana man has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on a narcotics charge.
46-year-old Walter Porter was already on federal supervised release for a drug crime when he was pulled over by Indiana Borough Police on April 14th, 2016. He had a green bag beside him and inside it police found a bag of white material concealed inside a hideaway can of Big Puncture Seal Tire Repair. The state police crime lab tested the material and identified it as approximately three grams of crack cocaine.
Porter, who was described by federal prosecutors as a “career criminal”, had a previous state conviction for armed robbery and a federal conviction for cocaine trafficking. That made him eligible for sentencing as a Career Offender under federal guidelines.
Indiana Borough Police, state police, and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives investigated the case, which was prosecuted as a part of the Project Safe Neighborhoods Program.
