Pottstown man draws prison for selling fentanyl

NORRISTOWN >> A Pottstown man faces up to eight years in state prison after he admitted to illegal drug activity in the borough involving the drug fentanyl.

Aries Hermane Rumley, 38, of the 300 block of North Washington Street, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court on Tuesday to 4-to-8-years in a state correctional facility after he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of possession with intent to deliver fentanyl in connection with incidents that occurred between June and July 2018.

Judge William R. Carpenter imposed the punishment as part of a plea agreement.

Pottstown police launched an investigation of Rumley in June 2018 when they received information that Rumley was involved in trafficking fentanyl in the borough, according to a criminal complaint.

Later in June, on two occasions, Rumley possessed and delivered an amount of packaged fentanyl to a confidential informant during meetings in the borough. Evidence from the controlled buys was sent to a lab for testing, court papers indicate.

“We later received a lab report which confirmed the presence of fentanyl,” Pottstown Police Corporal Steve Morrisey and Police Officer Brett Cortis alleged in the arrest affidavit.

During another controlled buy in July 2018, Rumley possessed and delivered an amount of packaged fentanyl to a confidential informant and tests subsequently confirmed the presence of fentanyl, according to the arrest affidavit.

Other charges of dealing in proceeds of unlawful activities and criminal use of a communication facility were dismissed against Rumley as part of the plea agreement.