HARRISBURG — Attorney General Michelle Henry announced that a jury has convicted the main supplier of a Luzerne County-based drug trafficking organization of numerous felonies.
Following a week-long trial, the jury found Stanley Sabatel guilty of conspiracy to deliver methamphetamine, conspiracy to possess with intent to deliver methamphetamine, possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine, and conspiracy to commit robbery.
The Office of Attorney General presented testimony that Sabatel, 26, was a supplier for mid-to upper-level street dealers of methamphetamine.
Sabatel will be sentenced on Nov. 27. His bail was revoked at the verdict and he was remanded to prison.
“The jury heard testimony that this defendant was at the top of the chain of a methamphetamine trafficking operation distributing poison in neighborhoods throughout Luzerne County,” Attorney General Henry said. “This verdict is a testament to the relentless efforts of law enforcement to combat drug trafficking in our communities.”
The charges resulted from a joint investigation between the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General and Pennsylvania State Police, with assistance from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Hazleton Police Department and Butler Township Police Department.
Sabatel and a co-conspirator were regularly supplying pounds of methamphetamine to the organization.
The case was prosecuted by Senior Deputy Attorney General Michelle Hardik, Chief Deputy Attorney General Angela Sperrazza, and Deputy Attorney General Thomas Hogans.
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