LAWRENCE COUNTY Lawyers: Add jail time to man's drug sentence

The man's brother, who also faced drug charges, was deported.
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- Lawrence County prosecutors will seek extra jail time for a New Castle businessman convicted on drug charges because drug transactions took place within 1,000 feet of a school.
District Attorney Matthew Mangino said he hopes to add at least two more years to a sentence given to Issa George Haddad, 42, of Mercer Road, New Castle, because OxyContin, a prescription painkiller often given to cancer patients, was sold near Thaddeus Stevens Elementary School.
Haddad, who operates the Cruise-In Food Mart on East Washington Street, was convicted Friday evening after a nearly weeklong jury trial in common pleas court.
About the case: The charges of two counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, two counts of possession of a controlled substance, one count of delivery of a controlled substance and three counts of criminal conspiracy stem from the sale of 22 OxyContin pills to a confidential police informant on Nov. 12-13, 2000, police said.
Haddad's attorney, Carmen Lamancusa, could not be reached to comment.
Judge J. Craig Cox immediately revoked Haddad's bond after his conviction and he will remain in jail until sentenced sometime in the next two months.
Robert Barletto handled the case for the district attorney's office.
Drug sweep: Haddad and his brother, Attallah George Haddad, also known as Eddie Fawzi Haddad, also of Mercer Road, were arrested in February 2001 along with 12 others in a drug sweep conducted by the Lawrence County District Attorney's Drug Task Force and New Castle and Shenango Township police.
Eddie Haddad pleaded guilty to drug charges in February and was sentenced to 10 years of county probation with the specific condition that he be deported. A deportation hearing before the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service is set for April 9.
Issa Haddad faces a mandatory minimum of five years in state prison, and prosecutors want an additional two years added because of the vicinity of the drug sales to the school. The maximum sentence he faces is 60 years in prison and a $400,000 fine.