A North Carolina man will spend the next two decades in federal prison for his role in a multi-state drug trafficking and money laundering operation that sent large quantities of illegal narcotics into northeastern Pennsylvania.
Federal prosecutors said Joseph Ashley Dickenson, 47, of Charlotte, was sentenced on December 18, 2025, to 20 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Malachy E. Mannion following his conviction on drug trafficking and related financial crimes.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, investigators determined that Dickenson worked with several other individuals between January and early May 2023 to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl…