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PROVIDENCE, R.I.--A Woonsocket man has been found guilty in federal court of trafficking crack cocaine.

U.S. Attorney Peter F. Neronha announced the verdict against Stephfon Cover, 37, that was handed up on Monday by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Mary M. Lisi. He is being held at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls pending his sentencing on Feb. 12.

Cover faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison.

A codefendant in the case, Stephanie Fath, 32, who lived with Cover, is serving a five-year federal prison sentence for her role in the crack distribution conspiracy.

During a non-jury trial in August, Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephanie S. Browne presented evidence that in the summer of 2008, Fath sold crack cocaine in Cranston. Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration Task Force monitored the drug sale.

In entering her guilty plea, Fath admitted that she had also sold crack cocaine another time in Cranston and once in Newport.

The buyer of the drugs paid a total of $1,440 for about 25 grams of crack cocaine in the three transactions.

Lisi found Cover guilty of conspiracy and distributing crack cocaine, while Fath pleaded guilty to conspiracy and three charges related to the distribution of crack cocaine.

Undercover police officers from Cranston and the Newport police participated in the DEA investigation.

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