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Man Sentenced To 10 Years For Distributing Cocaine

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) -- Federal prosecutors say a Fort Washington man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for distributing crack and cocaine.

Forty-five-year-old Peter Purvis Jr. was sentenced on Monday in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt.

According to his guilty plea, Purvis was part of a Suitland-based drug trafficking organization. He admitted to being responsible for distributing between 11 and 33 pounds of cocaine.

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