Rockford man sentenced to over a decade for cocaine trafficking crime

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) – A man has been sentenced after pleading guilty in connection to a 2020 drug trafficking operation in Rockford.

Dec. 18, Cornell Finley, 48, was sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for intentionally possessing cocaine with intent to distribute and possessing two handguns in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

Finley admitted in a plea agreement that he had the loaded guns to protect his drug supply and the money he earned from trafficking…

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