A Germantown drug dealer has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for distributing cocaine.
Prosecutors said 26-year-old Byron A. Grey Jr. converted powder cocaine into crack cocaine and gave it to associates to sell at open-air drug markets in Montgomery County from January 2003 to August 2006.
He was caught with cocaine several times, including while driving a car reported stolen with three ounces of crack cocaine, five ounces of powder cocaine and a loaded handgun in October 2005, according to court documents. He also told his girlfriend to flee with 2.5 ounces of crack cocaine and 11 ounces of powder cocaine when he struck a police car in a high-speed chase after one of his co-conspirators exchanged gunfire with another drug dealer in April 2005, court records say.
In total, prosecutors estimate that Grey and his associated distributed between 11 and 33 pounds of crack cocaine.
Grey was indicted in federal court in Greenbelt in October 2008 and pleaded guilty last April.
