New Castle man sentenced to prison for drug trafficking

NEW CASTLE, Pa. (WKBN) — A New Castle man who pleaded guilty earlier this year to drug trafficking charges will serve over four years behind bars.

In June, Dontae Blackshear, 26, pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute fentanyl and cocaine between May 2021 and October 2022.

According to a Wednesday Department of Justice release, Blackshear was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison and will have to then serve six years of supervised release.

According to information presented to the court, Blackshear was responsible for trafficking
20 grams of fentanyl and 100 grams of cocaine in 2022. He was on state parole at that time following a 2021 heroin trafficking conviction and prison sentence.

The 2021 conviction was preceded by several convictions in separate state prosecutions since 2016, including for assault, two violent burglaries, fleeing/eluding, and conspiracy to commit theft, according to the DOJ.

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