Acting United States Attorney, James L. Porter, announced that 31-year old Fetara D. McCarter of Belleville, was sentenced to 7 years and 3 months in prison in United States District Court in East Saint Louis for Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin and Cocaine.  McCarter pled guilty to the federal charge on September 2, 2015, and has been confined in federal custody since that date.  At her change of plea hearing in September, McCarter admitted that she had distributed heroin in the Belleville area from February 2014 until her arrest on April 18, 2014.