Tewksbury Man Sentenced In Car Bombing, Drug Dealing Cases

LOWELL, MA -- Cory Slack, the Tewksbury man who was arrested for dealing cocaine while out on bail for a 2014 beating and car bombing, was sentenced to 4.5 to 5 years in prison last week. Lowell Superior Court Judge Robert Ullmann handed down the sentence last week after Slack, 24, pleaded guilty to assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury and malicious damage to a motor vehicle.

In 2014 Slack beat a man who came to his girlfriend's Tewksbury home trying to collect money the woman was holding for him. The beating left the victim with permanent facial scarring. A few days later Slack went to the Billerica home of one of the victim's friends and threw a a Molotov cocktail into his car.

After being arrested, Slack was released on bail and later arrested by Tewksbury police. He pleaded guilty to charges from that case, which included trafficking over 36 grams of cocaine, possession of cocaine, methadone and oxycodone, assault and battery on a police officer and resisting arrest, according to the Lowell Sun, which first reported this story.

Ullman sentenced Slack to 4.5 to 5 years in the cases, but the sentences will run concurrently.

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