CATAWBA COUNTY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A 24-year-old Newton man was sentenced to six to eight years in prison following his conviction for trafficking fentanyl by possession on separate occasions on April 2.
Joshua Nathaniel Mast was given an active sentence on one of the charges and a suspended sentence of eight to 19 months for a probationary period of 36 months on the other. If the suspended sentence is activated, he will serve that sentence at the end of the active prison term.
The Honorable Karen Eady Williams, Superior Court Judge from Mecklenburg County, imposed terms of the sentence after Mast pled guilty…