A convicted drug dealer from Philadelphia who moved to Butler was sentenced in federal court to prison for distributing fentanyl and heroin.

Dwayne Smallwood, 43, was sentenced to serve 28 months in prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute and conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and heroin.

The sentence imposed by Judge Robert J. Colville also requires Smallwood to serve six years of supervised release following his prison term.

Smallwood and eight codefendants were indicted on 27 drug charges for conspiring to distribute and distributing fentanyl and heroin in Butler between 2017 and 2020, according to Cindy K. Chung, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Smallwood previously was convicted twice in Philadelphia for committing crack cocaine trafficking crimes, Chung said.

He relocated to Butler, where he trafficked fentanyl and heroin as part of a Butler-based drug trafficking crew between 2017 and 2020, Chung said. He was on probation during part of that time as a result of separate convictions in Butler County for insurance fraud and crack possession, according to Chung.

State police, the FBI and the Butler County District Attorney’s Drug Task Force investigated the case.