Tuolumne County District Attorney Cassandra Jenecke announced that on April 21, 2025, Corey Craddock, 20 years old of Calaveras County, was sentenced to 7 years State Prison. Mr. Craddock was sentenced after pleading guilty to Possession for Fentanyl for Sale, a felony, and Possession of Marijuana for Sale, a misdemeanor.
On January 29, 2025, Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Office responded to an overdose of an individual in Columbia. Luckily and thankfully to the quick response of the his mother, that individual survived. Tuolumne County Sheriff’s deputies and the Tuolumne Narcotics Team (TNT) began an investigation that resulted in the arrest of Mr. Craddock. Through the investigation, detectives learned that Mr. Craddock was on felony mandatory supervision out of a conviction from Stanislaus County for possession of a controlled substance for sale. Mr. Craddock reported his address at his mother’s home in Calaveras but would often stay with a friend in Tuolumne County. In Tuolumne County, Mr. Craddock was determined to possess approximately 1,500 pressed pills that were disguised to look like oxycodone, but actually contained fentanyl. When a traffic stop was conducted on Mr. Craddock on January 30, 2025, he was found in possession of approximately 1.3 pounds of marijuana. Mr. Craddock’s phone was seized which revealed evidence supporting his drug sales operation.
Given a recent amendment in the law, because Mr. Craddock possessed more than 100 grams of fentanyl, his sentence was converted from a term that would be served in local county jail to state prison and added additional time.
As a part of his plea, Mr. Craddock acknowledged the following Fentanyl Advisement: “You are hereby advised that it is extremely dangerous and deadly to human life to illicitly manufacture, distribute, sell, furnish, administer, or give away any drugs in any form, including real or counterfeit drugs or pills. You can kill someone by engaging in this conduct. All drugs and counterfeit pills are dangerous to human life. These substances alone, or mixed, kill human beings in very small doses. If you illicitly manufacture, distribute, sell, furnish, administer, or give away any real or counterfeit drugs or pills, and that conduct results in the death of a human being, you could be charged with homicide, up to and including the crime of murder, within the meaning of Section 187 of the Penal Code.” The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Stephanie Novelli.
If you have any information regarding drug sales in our community, please contact the TNT tip line at (209) 533-5884.
