Ring Leader Who In 2017 Was Consuming 40 Bags Of Heroin Daily Sentenced To Six Years In Prison
Ring Leader Who In 2017 Was Consuming 40 Bags Of Heroin Daily Sentenced To Six Years In Prison
WILLIAMSPORT – A Sunbury man who in 2017 was consuming 40 bags of heroin a day has been sentenced to six years in federal prison as the leader of a three-member ring that sold drugs in the Sunbury and Berwick areas.“I hurt a lot of people,” Frank J. Galasso, 67, of Sunbury, said before U.S. Middle District Judge Matthew W. Brann sentenced him Friday.
Besides the jail term, Galasso must pay a $400 fine and forfeit $12,260 in cash, a vehicle and contents of a safe deposit box. He will be on supervised release for four years.
Galasso, who pleaded guilty in January to a charge of conspiracy to distribute heroin, is the final member of the ring to be sentenced.
Adam Poeth of Shamokin is serving four years and Chad Snyder, formerly of Northumberland, is doing 17 months. Snyder was described as a low-level dealer.
Poeth and Galasso were arrested in 2017 on Interstate 80 en route to Philadelphia to buy heroin.
Galasso told Brann he started using drugs as a youngster but was clean for 24 years during which he had his own business or was working.
He relapsed in 2016 when he was unable to get prescription pain killers for an injury suffered when he fell off a roof, he said. “I have no excuses,” he said.
Brann expressed concern for Galasso’s health while in prison related to COVID-19 because he has heart disease.
However, the judge said Galasso was a fairly high-level dealer who in 2017 was consuming 40 bags of heroin a day. This is his fifth narcotics conviction although most of them were years ago, he pointed out.
Galasso has nearly half his sentence served as he has been in jail 33 months since his arrest.
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