Crime

Christiansted Man Sentenced to 6½ Years for Cocaine Trafficking Faces New Drug Charge After DEA Search

ST. CROIX — A Christiansted man previously sentenced to six and a half years in federal prison for cocaine trafficking has been arrested on a new drug charge after Drug Enforcement Administration agents searched his residence Wednesday and reportedly discovered bags of suspected cocaine weighing a combined 407 grams, along with equipment bearing white powdery residue. Roosevelt Dowling, who received a 78-month prison sentence and five years of supervised release following his earlier conviction, was arrested October 14 and charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. According to investigators, DEA agents executed a search warrant at Dowling's residence Wednesday afternoon and discovered a black tube beneath an end table in the living room. Inside were several transparent, knotted plastic bags containing what agents described as a “powdery, chunky white substance.” The bags weighed a combined 407 grams, and a field test conducted on the contents of one bag returned ...