Dorchester pastor gets 4 to 5 for selling drugs out of his home and the church his mother started

Willie Wilkerson, 62, pleaded guilty yesterday to cocaine trafficking and illegal possession of ammunition and was promptly sentenced to four to five years in state prison, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Today's plea and sentencing came in Suffolk Superior Court following his indictment there. Wilkerson had pleaded guilty in Roxbury District Court following his 2017 arrest on charges he sold cocaine and oxycodone out his home and the Quincy Street Missional Church, where he was pastor. Undercover Boston officers made a series of buys from him at the church, at a food truck on the church grounds and at his home.

When he was arrested in May of that year, officers with a search warrant found approximately 30 grams of cocaine, 45 oxycodone pills, 9 grams of fentanyl, 73 grams of Buprenorphine and approximately 32 Clonozapam tablets at his home, the DA's office reports.

Wilkerson's mother, Idene "Ma Siss" Wilkerson, founded the church and helped turn a former auto chop shop on Quincy Street into a church, food bank and thrift shop with $70,000 she raised, in part by mortgaging a house she owned.