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JP Meth Dealer Sentenced to Prison

The man pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges in Suffolk Superior Court April 30.

A Jamaica Plain man was sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to drug trafficking charges in Suffolk Superior Court at the end of April.

Christopher Cadman, 34, pleaded guilty April 30 to charges of Trafficking in Morphine, Trafficking in Oxycodone, Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine (subsequent offense), and Distribution of a Class B substance, according to a statement from the office of state Attorney General Martha Coakley.

Cadman was sentenced to five to seven years in state prison with three years probation upon release.

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“This defendant was selling numerous narcotics, including methamphetamine, a highly addictive and dangerous drug,” Coakley said in the statement. “He has now been taken off our streets and we will continue to work to address public safety threats to our neighborhoods.”

Cadman was arrested in May 2011 after a state police detective unit and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration investigation revealed he was selling drugs out of his residence in Jamaica Plain, according to the statement.

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