BOSTON (AP) — A Boston church pastor who continued to sell drugs even after he made bail following his initial narcotics arrest has been sentenced to up to five years in prison, prosecutors say.

Willie Wilkerson, 62, of the city's Dorchester neighborhood, was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to multiple drug charges and other offenses, according to the office of Suffolk District Attoney Rachael Rollins.

“That this coward used his church to mask and hide his criminal behavior is awful," Rollins said in a statement. “His actions inflicted harm on the community and the church congregation he was supposed to be serving."

Wilkerson was arrested in 2017 after police received information that he was selling drugs out of his home and the Mission Church. Search warrants executed at the church and his home yielded cocaine, oxycodone, fentanyl and prescription medicines, authorities said.

He made bail and was arrested again late last year after police executing search warrants found more drugs as well as .32 caliber ammunition at his home, the church and on his person, prosecutors said

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