Frankford man arrested in illegal drug operation sentenced in Sussex Co.

A Frankford man arrested in November after a Sussex County drug operation pleaded guilty and was sentenced in Georgetown on Friday morning.

According to Delaware Department of Justice officials, 23-year-old Alfred Wescott of Frankford, pleaded guilty to drug dealing and resisting arrest. He was then sentenced to a total of nine years in prison, suspended for 18 months of probation.

Wescott was initially charged with possession with intent to deliver heroin, possession with intent to deliver crack cocaine, possession of heroin, possession of crack cocaine, conspiracy 2nd, resisting arrest, and two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia in November, arraigned at JP2 and committed to Sussex Correctional Institution on $35,500 secured bond after he was a part of four people arrested during an illegal drug sales operation in Dagsboro.

The charges came from an incident on November 2, where police say that around 4:19PM, the Sussex County Drug Unit, along with the Sussex County Governor’s Task Force, finished a drug operation into the illegal drug sales at a home on East Diamond Drive, in the Diamond Acres development.

Officials say that they had received several complaints relating to people loitering at this house, along with narcotic sales taking place on the cul-de-sac in front of the home. Detectives were reportedly able to get surveillance of the area and witness people meeting cars and conducting “hand to hand” drug transactions.

Troopers reported that on November 2, they drove into the cul-de-sac to make contact with one of the suspects, who was later identified as Alfred L. Wescott Jr., 23 of Frankford, and after the troopers identified themselves as state police, Wescott ran away on foot. He was reportedly taken into custody shortly after, though, without incident. Officials say that a search of Wescott found that he had a green Crown Royal bag that contained 245 bags of heroin and more than seven grams of crack cocaine.