Federal sentence for Chicago to Chattanooga heroin trade

CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) – A federal judge sentenced Cornelius Q. Hill to seven and a half years in prison for heroin trafficking.

The Chicago native pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute heron, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

The case goes back to last August when DEA agents seized 40 grams of heroin at Hill’s hotel room in town.

Hill admitted that he was sent from Chicago by the Vice Lords gang to sell heroin in Chattanooga.

United States Attorney Nancy Stallard Harr said in a statement “Hill’s sentence reflected the danger and risk of harm his conduct posed to society. The United States asked the court to impose a sentence that would deter future drug dealers from Chicago and elsewhere from traveling to the Eastern District of Tennessee to sell their drugs.”

The U.S Attorney cited the Project Safe Neighborhoods and the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force for bringing the case.