Man sentenced in Chesterfield County drug case

A Charlotte man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine in connection with a Chsterfield County case, U.S. Attorney W. Walter Wilkins said in a press release.

U.S. District Judge Terry L. Wooten sentenced 27-year-old Cavedric McNair this week.

Evidence presented at prior hearings established that McNair, Deandra Maurice Adams, 25, also of Charlotte, and Douglas McKendrie Mays IV, 28, of Cassatt, were part of a group responsible for the distribution of multiple kilograms of cocaine in the Carolinas since 2000.

During 2007, confidential informants working for the State Law Enforcement Division made controlled purchases of cocaine from McNair and Mays. In October 2007, during a buy-bust undercover operation, McNair and Adams were arrested in possession of more than 150 grams of cocaine. That same day the FBI executed a search warrant at McNair’s residence, and found 600 grams of cocaine, along with the packaging for 28 kilograms of cocaine. More than $4,000 in cash and scales for weighing the cocaine also were found in McNair’s residence. 

Wooten sentenced Adams and Mays already to 90 and 38 months, respectively.

The case, which also was investigated by the Chesterfield County Sheriff’s Office, was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney A. Bradley Parham of the Florence office.