Nathaniel Abraham, Michigan's Youngest Convicted Murderer, Sentenced To Prison For Drug Crimes

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PONTIAC (WWJ) - The man who was once the youngest person in Michigan to be charged with murder will be spending up to 40 more years behind bars.

Nathaniel Abraham, 33, was sentenced in Oakland County Circuit Court Tuesday on multiple counts of delivering and manufacturing methamphetamines after earlier pleading guilty to the charges. 

Abraham was arrested in February for selling drugs to undercover officers in Farmington Hills and Pontiac following a weeks-long task force investigation. 

He underwent a psychiatric evaluation and was found to be competent. 

Abraham made national headlines when he became the youngest person in Michigan to face murder charges at the age of 11, and was convicted at age 13. Released from custody when he turned 21, he ended up back in prison on drug charges less than two years later. He was again released from prison in 2017 and discharged from parole last June.

Two months later, he was charged with indecent exposure and obstructing and assaulting police officers. He pleaded guilty to the indecent exposure charge and a Pontiac judge sentenced him to 30 days in jail, with credit for 30 days served. Proceedings are ongoing in the obstruction case.