JOHNSTOWN, PA — Davin Gower, a 30-year-old resident of Morrisdale, Pennsylvania, entered a guilty plea to Count Two of the Superseding Indictment before Senior United States District Judge Kim R. Gibson on November 14, 2023.
As part of his guilty plea, Gower acknowledged that from July 2019 to June 2020, he conspired to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine.
Judge Gibson has scheduled sentencing for March 18, 2024. The law mandates a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life, a fine of up to $10,000,000, or both. The actual sentence will be determined based on the seriousness of the offenses and any prior criminal history of the defendant, as per the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.
The case against Gower was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Maureen Sheehan-Balchon on behalf of the government. The investigation leading to Gower’s prosecution involved multiple agencies, including the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Pennsylvania State Police, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation, the United States Postal Inspection Service, Homeland Security Investigations, Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General, Clearfield County District Attorney’s Office, Erie County District Attorney’s Office, Millcreek Police Department, Erie Bureau of Police, and other local law enforcement agencies.
This prosecution is part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) investigation.
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