NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Orleans has announced a guilty plea in a drug-related murder case.
Twenty-two-year-old Evans Lewis of New Orleans pleaded guilty to the murder of Gregory Keys in the course of a drug-trafficking crime in 2011.
U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite’s news release says Lewis’ guilty plea resulted from a multi-year investigation of heroin trafficking in an area known as the “G-Strip” in New Orleans’ 9th Ward.
Court documents show Lewis agreed to plead guilty Wednesday to “murder in furtherance of a conspiracy.” His plea agreement does not specify a sentence but says he could be ordered to serve “any number of years up to life” in prison.
Lewis will be sentenced July 17.
A co-defendant, Gregory Stewart, is set for trial July 14.
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