More than 15 years ago, Elvin Delgado told a Lancaster judge he planned to change his life.
That was when Delgado was a teenage member of the South Ann Street Posse, facing state prison for third-degree murder in the death of Tyron "Tykie" Speller.
Apparently, when he got out of jail, Delgado found his way back to Lancaster and, police said, into a large-scale drug trafficking operation.
On Tuesday, Delgado, now 32, was sentenced to 16 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to his part in the drug delivery scheme.
That sentence, federal officials said, is in addition to the 6½ to 15 years in prison imposed by a Lancaster County judge for criminal charges stemming from the same drug operation.
In addition to the prison time, U.S. District Court Judge Christopher Conner ordered Delgado on Tuesday to forfeit $52,000 in cash and $40,000 in jewelry confiscated at the time of his arrest.
Delgado pleaded guilty in federal court, along with more than a dozen other Lancaster County residents, to charges of conspiring to possess about $100,000 worth of cocaine.
Prosecutors said Mexican drug dealers brought tens of millions of dollars worth of cocaine into central Pennsylvania, enlisting local lower-level drug dealers to peddle their wares in much smaller amounts.
That was until police shut them down in 2006, when local detectives nabbed two of the major dealers inside a Manheim Township motel with two duffel bags containing 40 kilograms of cocaine.
Detectives with the Lancaster County Drug Task Force, along with state police, federal drug agents and the Internal Revenue Service, worked together to investigate the drug ring.
In 2007, Delgado went to trial, was convicted and sentenced by Lancaster County Court Judge Dennis Reinaker to 6½ to 15 years in prison on charges of conspiracy and possession with intent to deliver drugs.
According to newspaper records, Delgado first went to prison in 1995 after he and his fellow Posse members were convicted in the death of the 19-year-old Speller.
It was May 1993, when more than a dozen young men gathered for a fight at South Ann and Green streets.
But an exchange of fists turned into an exchange of gunfire.
When it was over, Speller was dead.
Delgado, who was 15 years old at the time of the shooting, and several others were later arrested in connection with the death.
Delgado pleaded no contest to third-degree murder, telling the judge he was trying to change his life and get an education.
He was sentenced to 6½ to 20 years in prison and, according to court records, served about 10 years before he was released in 2005.