On April 8, 2010 Avery Green of South Pittsburg, TN was sentenced to serve 240 months in Federal Prison by United States Chief District Judge Curtis Collier. Mr. Green will also have to spend an additional 8 years on supervised Federal Probation once he is released from prison.
Mr. Green had been arrested on a Federal Indictment on June 06, 2009 and was charged with distributing crack cocaine on at least six occasions between April of 2008 and April of 2009. Mr. Green distributed close to 50 grams of crack cocaine during the undercover drug purchases. All of these transactions took place within 1,000 feet of the South Pittsburg High School property.
The case was prosecuted through the Sheriff’s Department’s partnership with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Project Safe Neighborhoods Task Force. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation East Tennessee Drug Unit also assisted in the investigation.
Sheriff Bo Burnett stated the partnership with the Project Safe Neighborhoods Task Force is designed to prosecute the “worst of the worst” drug distributors and violent offenders. In this case Mr. Green had previously been convicted three times for distributing crack cocaine and had been arrested numerous times and charged with aggravated assault.
