Merrifield drug trafficker who evaded police sentenced to 10 years

A Merrifield man who evaded arrest for eight years will spend the next decade in federal prison in connection to drug charges.

Otis Chevalier, 46, was sentenced last Thursday (April 10) to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty last year to both the distribution of and the conspiracy to distribute the drug phencyclidine — otherwise known as PCP, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.

From 2015 to 2017, Chevalier had shipped PCP through the mail twice to residences belong to the mothers of his children in Chantilly. He would then take the substance to a Maryland storage unit, where he stored and repackaged it for redistribution, federal prosecutors said…

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