LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — A Lancaster County man has been sentenced to 140 months in jail for trafficking methamphetamine.
The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on April 3, Brian Johnson, 43, from Lancaster County was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Jennifer P. Wilson.
Johnson had previously pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiracy to traffic methamphetamine.
Judge Wilson also ordered Johnson to serve three years on supervised release following his prison sentence.
According to United States Attorney Gerard M. Karam, Johnson and three co-conspirators, who have also pleaded guilty, distributed hundreds of grams of methamphetamine in Lancaster and Dauphin Counties between September 2020 and August 2021, operating mainly out of Columbia Borough.
Johnson began selling large quantities of methamphetamine to another co-conspirator in September 2020, when he was living in Philadelphia. According to the court, he relocated to Columbia Borough in early 2021 and continued trafficking substantial quantities of meth until he was arrested on Aug. 30, 2021.
By the time he was sentenced, Johnson had at least eight previous convictions for other criminal offenses, including drug trafficking, assault and unlawful firearms possession.
This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and gun violence and to make neighborhoods safer for everyone.