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Lewis County Woman Sentenced on Federal Meth Related Charges
10/04/17 11:45am
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    Press Release from U.S. Department of Justice:

    North Country Woman Sentenced on Methamphetamine Related Charge

    Purchased Pseudoephedrine For Two and a Half Years
    For Others to Use to Manufacture Methamphetamine

    SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Cayla Wujek, 25, formerly of Lewis County, was
    sentenced yesterday to serve 66 months imprisonment for possessing
    pseudoephedrine knowing it would be used to manufacture methamphetamine,
    announced Acting United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, U.S. Drug
    Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt of
    the New York Division and New York State Police Superintendent George P.
    Beach II.

    As part of her previous guilty plea, Wujeck admitted that between January 2014
    and July 2016, she purchased pseudoephedrine pills with an aggregate weight
    of 94 grams from different drug stores in and around Lewis County. Wujek
    knew there were restrictions on the sale of pseudoephedrine, and so, to avoid
    scrutiny, often rotated the stores from which she bought the pills. Wujek
    purchased the pseudoephedrine knowing it would be used to illegally
    manufacture methamphetamine, and gave the pills she had purchased to
    others for that purpose.  In return, Wujek received finished methamphetamine
    from the methamphetamine “cooks,” or, in some cases, received heroin in
    exchange for the pills.

    Wujek, who has been detained since her arrest on April 21, 2017, entered her
    guilty plea on May 31, 2017. After completing her 66 month term of
    imprisonment, Wujek will serve a term of supervised release of at least 3 years.

    This case was investigated by the New York State Police (NYSP), including
    the NYSP Contaminated Crime Scene Emergency Response Team (CCERT),
    the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office, and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, and
    was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Carl Eurenius.

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Cayla Wujek