A federal judge yesterday sentenced a Saugus man to 42 months in federal prison for selling prescription painkillers to New England Patriots lineman Nick Kaczur, whom a prosecutor said was "addicted to drugs."
US District Court Judge William G. Young said from the bench that he would have given Daniel Ekasala more prison time, except for the fact that he concluded that Ekasala earnestly tried to persuade Kaczur to stop buying and using OxyContin even as he sold the lineman the pills.
"I am satisfied that you did counsel [Kaczur] to stop his drug use," Young told Ekasala.
US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan's office had asked for a 46-month sentence for Ekasala, who was secretly recorded selling Kaczur 300 OxyContin pills while the player was working as a cooperating witness for the Drug Enforcement Administration in May.
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