Convicted Murderer From East Windsor Had Drugs Shipped To Prison: Feds

PROVIDENCE, RI – A former East Windsor resident serving seven years at a Rhode Island detention facility for his role in a heroin and crack distribution ring, all the while awaiting sentencing on a murder conviction in Connecticut, was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Providence to two years of incarceration for arranging to have papers soaked with a synthetic cannabinoid shipped to the detention facility.

Antwane Williams-Bey, 33, pleaded guilty last week to a charge of conspiracy to provide and possession of contraband in prison, and a charge of attempted possession of contraband by an inmate, U.S. Attorney Zachary A. Cunha said.

According to information presented to the court, on multiple occasions, Williams-Bey arranged to have papers soaked in MDMB-4en-PINACA, a synthetic cannabinoid, shipped to, or carried into, the Wyatt Detention Facility. At the time, he was detained at Wyatt while awaiting sentencing on a charge of causing death through the use of a firearm – premeditated murder – in the U.S. District Court in Connecticut.

In Nov. 2022, Williams-Bey, a member of the Orange Street Killas street gang, was convicted of the 2013 shooting death of Valentin Santos Jr., 21, in Hartford. On Aug. 12, 2013, Williams-Bey shot and killed Santos on Linnmoore Street in Hartford in retaliation for a theft of his drug stash and money. Santos was shot a dozen times, mostly in the back, according to Vanessa Roberts Avery, U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut.

Williams-Bey is scheduled to be sentenced for the murder conviction on March 12. He faces a maximum term of life in prison.