Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
MARQUETTE — Raymond Valentino Bowser, 31, of Chicago, was sentenced to five years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced in a statement Friday.
Bowser also received 12 years of supervised release.
U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell sentenced Bowser for distribution of heroin within 1,000 feet of a playground, a charge Bowser pleaded guilty to last December.
Bowser was the subject of an Gogebic-Iron Area Narcotics Team investigation that included a Feb. 20, 2015, undercover heroin purchase from Bowser, according to Miles.
On Feb. 21, 2015, Bowser was arrested on an unrelat...