WILLIAMSPORT – A Williamsport man already charged by state police with providing the fentanyl that caused the death of a woman cooperating in a drug investigation has been indicted in federal court.
The U.S. Middle District Court indictment charges Daquan Alterki Alford, 43, with possession with intent to distribute fentanyl that caused a death.
Both he and his son, Daquan Altari Alford, 25, who was named in a separate indictment, are charged with possession with intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl and crack cocaine along with maintaining a drug-involved premise.
The indictments unsealed Thursday contain few details of the charges.
The state charges accuse the father of providing heroin and fentanyl to Krista Suzanne Pardoe, 31, as payment for a rental car she obtained for him so he could travel to Newark, New Jersey, to pick up drugs.
Pardoe was found dead May 1 on the floor in the bedroom of her residence in Montgomery. She had a recent injection mark on her right arm, police said.
Found in a purse in a dresser drawer were a used hypodermic needle, eight bundles of heroin containing the “Roxanne” stamp and a partially used bag with the same inscription, police said.
A state police affidavit states this is what the victim told them earlier on May 1:
She was aware from making previous trips with Alford that he traffics in large amount of heroin in the Williamsport area.
She rented a car that Alford drove April 29 to Newark. He returned about 2 a.m. May 1, and she met him and went with him to another location where he made a phone call.
Alford met the man he called and gave him a backpack but before doing so showed him a large amount of suspected cocaine and heroin.
He did not have money to pay the woman for the car rental so he gave her two bundles of heroin in white bags with a “Roxanne” stamp.
The drug charges against the Alfords in both the federal and state cases stem from a May 1 search of a third-floor apartment in the 800 block of High Street in Williamsport where they lived.
The federal indictment accuses the Alfords of storing, distributing and using controlled substances in that apartment from Jan. 1 to May 1, 2021.
Seized were 250 bags of fentanyl, 17.98 grams of crack cocaine, 100 baggies stamped “Roxanne and 150 baggies stamped “organic,” according to the arrest affidavit.
Lab test results determined the “Roxanne” baggies contained 4.1 grams of fentanyl and the “organic” ones contained 3.8 grams of heroin and fentanyl, the charges state.
The older Alford was released from state prison on Oct. 31, 2020, and would have been on parole in a drug case until the end of this month had he not been arrested.
Usually in these cases the state charges are dropped in favor of the federal prosecution.
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