Middleburgh Woman Sentenced to 36 Months for Drug Crimes

ALBANY, NEW YORK – Teirra Pickering, age 59, of Middleburgh, New York, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison on four counts of distributing controlled substances, including heroin-fentanyl mixtures. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New York Division, made the announcement.

As part of her prior guilty plea, Pickering admitted that she distributed heroin-fentanyl mixtures on four occasions between late February 2021 and early March 2021. One of the people Pickering distributed to died hours later of an overdose.

United States District Judge Anne M. Nardacci also imposed a 3-year term of supervised release to follow the prison term.

DEA and the Greene County Sheriff’s Office investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Dustin C. Segovia prosecuted the case.