Ithaca man sentenced 13 years for Watertown drug distribution

Brandon Kyc
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WATERTOWN, N.Y. (WETM) — An Ithaca man has been sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for drug-related crimes involving cocaine and meth in May of 2021.

According to a release by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York, 31-year-old Odell Tindley was sentenced on Thursday, Feb. 29, to 13 years in prison with five years parole for conspiring to distribute controlled substances, meth, and cocaine, in Watertown.

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Tindley admitted in a previous guilty plea that he distributed 83 grams of cocaine in Watertown on May 25, 2021, and set up a delivery for a larger quantity of meth later the same day.

Police pulled over a vehicle driven by a coconspirator of Tindley as it entered Watertown on the evening of May 25, 2021.

When police searched the vehicle they found 904 grams of meth and around a pound of marijuana.

At the time of Tindley’s arrest, he was living in Watertown for a mandated pre-sentence drug rehabilitation program coming from a guilty plea to a felony drug charge out of Tompkins County in October 2022. As part of that offense, Tindley was sentenced to serve two years in state prison.

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