Federal appeals court upholds Gary man’s drug conviction

Federal appeals court upholds Gary man’s drug conviction

A federal appeals court recently upheld a Gary man’s drug conviction. Lamont Coleman, now 43, was sentenced to 20 years in August 2023. A jury convicted him of conspiring to distribute heroin, possessing a firearm as a felon, and possessing with intent to distribute heroin. Authorities accused him of running a heroin ring out of his Gary properties from November 2017 to August 2018 — an apartment building on the 4100 block of Madison Street, the…