LOCK HAVEN, PA -  Maurice Flipper Johnson, 36, of McCloskey Lane in Lamar Township, was sentenced Tuesday to a total term of 8 years in state prison for possession with intent to deliver Methamphetamine and Heroin.  President Judge Craig P. Miller imposed the sentence after Johnson entered no contest pleas to one count of Possession with Intent to Deliver Controlled Substances, and ungraded felony, and one count of Criminal Use of a Communication Facility, a felony of the third degree.  Johnson will be eligible for parole from state prison after four years.  

Johnson was arrested by Sgt. Denny Gill of the Pine Creek Police Department as part of the East Clinton County Drug Task Force.  Task force officers, with the assistance of other Clinton County police departments, the Pennsylvania State Police at Lamar, and Agents with the PA Office of Attorney General, conducted an early evening search on June 24th, 2022, of a trailer on McCloskey Lane in Lamar Township.  Johnson had reportedly been residing at the Lamar Township trailer with the permission of the owner of the residence. The search resulted in the arrest of  Johnson, who provided a Philadelphia address upon arraignment, was alleged linked by the task force to previous drug deliveries to another man, Matthew Slota, who was arrested in Lycoming County earlier in June of 2022 for Possession With Intent to Deliver Methamphetamine and is currently serving a state sentence out of Clinton County for mutilple sales of controlled substances in 2021.

When the Clinton County East Drug Task Force descended on McCloskey Lane on Wednesday, they located Johnson, along with a large amount of suspected Methamphetamine and  Heroin, drug packaging materials, and digital scales.  

MDJ John Maggs originally set bail on Johnson at $250,000, and he remained incarcerated since his arrest at the Clinton County Correctional Facility in McElhatten.