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HOLLIDAYSBURG A 40-year-old Johnstown man with a long history of drug abuse said Tuesday that selling drugs allowed him to support his own habit.
“I was using drugs for a long time,” Malik Lydil Johnson told Judge Wade Kagarise, who handed down a sentence of six to 14 years based on Johnson’s plea to criminal charges in five heroin sales inside Blair County.
“This is the first time in my life that I’ve wanted to change,” Johnson told Kagarise.
Johnson has been housed in the Blair County Prison since his Aug. 2, 2018, arrest outside the food court of the Logan Valley Mall where he sold heroin laced with fentanyl to a confidential informant for $250. It was the fifth sale police reported witnessing during an investigation that began in June 2018.