Virginia Man Gets Years in Prison for Running Cocaine, Heroin Network in Leesburg

A Virginia man has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to running a drug trafficking network and dealing multiple types of cocaine and heroin in the Leesburg area.

According to a joint statement by the Leesburg Police Department (LPD) and the Washington Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 37-year-old Lonnell K. Sanya of Hamilton, Virginia pled guilty to charges and was given two sentences totaling 84 months in prison.

Sanya had been under investigation for nearly a year as LPD police suspected he had been running his drug business and dealing "a significant weight of narcotics" including both powder and crack cocaine and heroin within the Town of Leesburg limits.

The joint statement said that officers and agents from both LPD and the FBI conducted surveillance on Sanya in Leesburg on Nov. 19 of last year and subsequently arrested him on local drug charges.

Following his arrest, authorities said they served a search warrant at his apartment in Hamilton and seized "a vehicle, a large amount of cash, and a quantity of illegal narcotics."

Sanya was formally charged on Jan. 7 for conspiring with others to manufacture and distribute Schedule II controlled substances. He was then turned over to the U.S. Marshalls Service.

Sanya pleaded guilty in federal court on Feb. 18, and was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison. He was then sentenced to 24 months for violating a supervised release, to run consecutively.