A Brooklyn man charged in a Massena-area drug sweep in 2013 will serve five years in federal prison following sentencing Wednesday.

Paul Williams, aka “Cash,” 32, of Brooklyn, who was living in Massena at the time of the crime, was sentenced Wednesday to serve in prison for a drug distribution conspiracy involving at least 500 grams of cocaine.

Senior U.S. District Judge Gary L. Sharpe also sentenced Williams to a four-year term of supervised release, to begin after Williams’s release from prison.

As part of his guilty plea in August 2015, Williams admitted that from 2012 through September 2013, he transported cocaine by bus from New York City to Plattsburgh, where he was picked up by co-conspirators and driven to Massena.

Upon arriving in Massena, Williams admitted he personally sold the cocaine and provided it to other members of the conspiracy for sale.

In August 2013, Williams was arrested in Plattsburgh with 84 grams of cocaine hidden in the bottom of a Pringles container, which he said he planned to sell in Massena.

This case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations, the Massena Police Department, the Saint Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office, and the New York State Police.

The sentencing announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and James C. Spero, Special Agent in Charge of the Buffalo Field Office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and HSI.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Katherine Kopita and Cyrus P.W. Rieck.