A federal judge sentenced a Winterville man, who pleaded guilty to being a major heroin supplier to Greenville and Wilmington, to 24 years in prison Monday.
Greenville police arrested Daryl Bernard Tyson, 37, in 2010 during an ongoing investigation of heroin trafficking in the areas.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Greenville police found 124 grams of heroin and $16,000 in a search of his house, and he was charged with conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute, as well as money laundering by concealment. Investigators learned that Tyson was responsible for distributing more than three kilograms of heroin from 2008 until the time of his arrest, according to the indictment, as he supplied several distributors in Greenville and Wilmington.
