FROM: HOLLEY CARNRIGHT
DATE: JULY 18, 2017
RE: PRESS RELEASE – COURTNEY WILLIAMSON
On July 14th, 2017, Courtney Williamson, 25 years old, pled guilty to Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the 3rd Degree (a class B felony ) in Delaware County Court before acting County Court Judge Brian D. Burns.
The plea culminated a year and a half long investigation spearheaded by Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics Team (herein after “URGENT”), together with the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office, into heroin and cocaine trafficking from the New York City area to Ulster, Delaware, and surrounding counties. The investigation revealed that Williamson, based in Brooklyn, supplied heroin and cocaine to various individuals in her employ. The “mules”, in turn, then transported the narcotics upstate for sale at her direction.
Previously, on March 30th, 2017, a sealed indictment was handed up by the Delaware County Grand Jury charging three counts of Sale of Narcotics and three counts Conspiracy to Distribute Narcotics resulting in an arrest warrant for Williamson. On April 4th, 2017, defendant was spotted in Delaware County and arrested by the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Division. Following her arrest, as a result of the execution of a Body Cavity Search Warrant, defendant was found to have 83 decks of heroin and 30 bags of cocaine secreted in her vagina.
In 2012, Defendant has been previously convicted in Delaware County Court of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 5th Degree and was sentenced to 30 months State Prison. Defendant was on parole when she was arrested and is a parole violator.
Williamson faces 12 years in prison as a Second Felony Offender, and her sentencing is scheduled in Delaware County Court on August 10th, 2017.
This case is being prosecuted by Ulster County Sr. Assistant District Attorney Clifford Owens.
