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Keysville Area Man Busted by Task Force

   Written by on December 18, 2015 at 11:09 am

LUNENBURG – Lewis Norman Cochran, a 55-year-old resident of 4387 Ontario Road, Keysville, was sentenced to five years in prison with all suspended except 45 days in jail recently in Lunenburg Circuit Court upon pleading guilty to one felony count of Distribution of Marijuana.  The suspended portion of his sentence will be subject to numerous conditions.

mug - Lewis CochranAccording to Commonwealth’s Attorney, the local narcotics task force, under the direction of Lunenburg County Deputy Sheriff Adam Martin, worked an undercover operation on March 19, 2014 and purchased $200 worth of marijuana from Cochran.  The task force waited until other operations at that time were completed over a period of a year and until other issues could be resolved before he was indicted on February 2, 2015.  He was arrested in October.

The active sentence is within the recommendation of the Sentencing Guidelines with a range of one day to three months, said Clement, even though Cochran had a prior conviction in Nottoway County in 1984 for Distribution of Marijuana.

Cochran’s additional four years and ten and a half months are suspended upon conditions of good behavior, supervised probation upon his release for one year, warrantless searches and seizures, counseling, and restitution of $300.

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