NORWICH – On Monday Feb. 22, Shaun P. Sullivan, 36, of Norwich appeared in Chenango County Court for a possible plea and sentencing on the matter related to his previous drug related arrest, and will now be serving the next five-years in state prison.

Sullivan previously made motions in Chenango County Court in October of 2015, for a judicial diversion, arguing he was a drug addict and not necessarily a dealer. However, following interviews conducted with Sullivan it is alleged that he did not meet the criteria and thus was left with two choices of taking the District Attorney's plea bargain offer or take the matter to trial.

Sullivan was originally arrested on Friday, Nov. 7, 2014, at approximately 9:20 p.m., when members of the Norwich Police Department allegedly forcibly entered a single-family residence, located on 12 State Street in the city of Norwich, with the authority of a search warrant signed by Chenango County Court Judge Frank B. Revoir, Jr.

After forcibly gaining entrance into the residence, NPD officers arrested three people and seized large quantities of heroin, “crack” cocaine and cash.

There was also a child under the age of 12 found inside the residence at the time of the arrests.

The New York State Police Community Narcotics Enforcement Team (CNET) along with help from the NPD K-9s Weeks and Nitro assisted NPD officers in the investigation and arrests.

Miguel A. Abreu, then 28, of Brooklyn, NY, Shaun P. Sullivan, then 34, of Norwich and Samantha M. Remillard, then 34, of Norwich were the three individuals detained during the original drug related arrests.

All three defendants were originally charged with the following: two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, a class B felony; criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, a class A misdemeanor; criminally using drug paraphernalia, a class A misdemeanor; criminal nuisance in the first degree, a class E felony; endangering the welfare of a child, a class A misdemeanor.

Abreu was also charged with the class E felony of tampering with physical evidence for his alleged attempts to destroy and or hide evidence upon the appearance of the police officers.

Since the 2014 arrests, both co-defendants of Sullivan have taken their respective plea bargain offers and have been sentenced

Abreu pled guilty to the top charge, which was criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, a class B felony. Abreu was sentenced to 5-years in the New York State Department of Corrections with 3-years post-release supervision.

Remillard was sentenced back in August of 2015 to the plea offer of four months of weekend incarceration, followed by five years of probation. Remillard began her first weekend of incarceration on August 23, 2015, and thus should have been released by now.