Eastern Shore Drug Dealers Sentenced To Prison

BALTIMORE, Md. – A Nanticoke man will spend the next nine years behind bars, for dealing cocaine.

On Friday, 43-year-old Anthony Hardy was sentenced to nine years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute cocaine. According to the plea agreement, Hardy gave cocaine to Maurice Hardy, no relation, on several occasions, and both were apparently heard by law enforcement to be discussing drug transactions together.

In May 2011, Police heard Maurice Hardy and Anthony Hardy talking during which Maurice told Anthony that Austin Roberts would be giving him seven kilograms of cocaine. The following day in Salisbury, Andrew Jackson, under Roberts' direction, gave Maurice Hardy cocaine, after which Police stopped Hardy's car, and seized the cocaine.

During the course of the conspiracy, Anthony Hardy and his co-conspirators distributed over 5 kilograms of cocaine.

Thirty seven-year-old Maurice Hardy, of Bridgeville, Delaware, pleaded guilty to charges, and has been sentenced to 16 years in prison. Thirty seven-year-old Austin Roberts III, of Elkridge, and 39-year-old Andrew Jackson, of Baltimore, also pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to 19 years, and 10 years, in prison, respectively.