Brooklyn woman admits upstate drug trafficking
Faces up to 12 years in prison
Courtney Williamson, 25, faces up to 12 years in state prison for narcotics sales in Ulster and Delaware counties.
A Brooklyn woman arrested after an investigation of multicounty drug trafficking has pleaded guilty to criminal sale of a controlled substance, the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday.
Courtney Williamson, 25, supplied heroin and cocaine to “mules” who transported the narcotics upstate “for sale at her direction,” according to a press release from District Attorney Holley Carnright.
She pleaded guilty to the felony on Friday in Delaware County Court before acting County Court Judge Brian D. Burns, Carnright said.
The investigation involved investigators in Ulster and Delaware counties and the New York City area.
Williamson faces up to 12 years in state prison as a repeat felony offender. She is to be sentenced Aug. 10 in Delaware County Court.
Williamson’s arrest followed an 18-month investigation into heroin and cocaine trafficking from the New York City area to Ulster, Delaware and surrounding counties, Carnright said. The investigation was led by the Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics Team (URGENT), with assistance from the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office.
On March 30, a sealed indictment was handed up by a Delaware County grand jury charging Williamson with three counts of criminal sale of narcotics and three counts of conspiracy to distribute narcotics, all felonies, resulting in a warrant for her arrest.
On April 4, Williamson was spotted in Delaware County and arrested by the Narcotics Division of the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office, Carnright said. A body cavity search then yielded 83 decks of heroin and 30 bags of cocaine, he said.
Williamson was convicted in 2012 in Delaware County Court of the felony of criminal possession of a controlled substance and was sentenced to 30 months in state prison, which she served at the Albion Correctional Facility in western New York. Williamson was on parole when she was arrested in the most recent case, officials said.