PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A Philadelphia man has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years in prison for making counterfeit pills with controlled substances including methamphetamine, and for illegally possessing three firearms.
DeWitt Drayton, 46, was also sentenced to five years of supervised release. He pleaded guilty in March to charges of possession with intent to distribute meth, after federal officials discovered what they said “can only be described as a drug lab.”
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Investigators said he created counterfeit painkillers including meth, fentanyl and horse tranquilizer Xylazine, as well as meth-laced ecstasy pills. They found thousands of pills that he intended to sell in Philadelphia.
Federal officials said they had tracked pill-making supply purchases from suppliers in China.
Two of the firearms that agents found had serial numbers removed.
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“Drayton was responsible for manufacturing and distributing fake opioid pills containing illicit fentanyl and fake stimulant pills containing methamphetamine out of a house in the heart of the Kensington section of Philadelphia,” said Thomas Hodnett, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Philadelphia Field Division in a statement.
“The current overdose crisis is largely driven by criminals like Drayton who flooded our streets with fentanyl-laced fake pills.”