ROANOKE TIMES

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, March 27, 1990                   TAG: 9003272371
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: staff report
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short


TEEN GETS 10 YEARS ON CRACK CONVICTION

A judge sentenced a 19-year-old Roanoke youth Monday to 10 years in prison on a crack cocaine charge.

Christopher Robin Carter was sentenced in Roanoke Circuit Court by Judge Diane Strickland.

Carter, who has been described as "college material," was arrested on charges of aiding and abetting a crack deal at the Lincoln Terrace housing project last June, on the day he was to graduate from high school.



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