BOSTON – A Brooklyn man was convicted right this moment by a federal jury in Boston for his position in a drug trafficking group (DTO) through which he transported tens of kilograms of cocaine from New York to Boston.
Dinelson Hernandez-Rodriguez, 30, was convicted of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute cocaine. U.S. District Courtroom Decide Patti B. Saris scheduled sentencing for Might 21, 2024. Hernandez-Rodriguez was indicted by a federal grand jury together with 9 others in October 2021.
In October 2019, an investigation started a few DTO trafficking of cocaine and fentanyl in Boston and Taunton. The intercepted communications established that the DTO was offered partly by people in New York. In August 2020, Hernandez-Rodriguez drove from New York to Hyde Park with kilograms of cocaine hidden in a entice compartment in his automobile. A day earlier, a co-conspirator additionally transported kilograms of cocaine from New York to Hyde Park. In whole, Hernandez-Rodriguez and his co-conspirator transported greater than 50 kilograms of cocaine meant for distribution in Boston.
After the cocaine was distributed within the Boston space, Hernandez-Rodriguez tried to move $240,240 in drug proceeds — once more, hidden within the entice in his automobile — to New York, however was intercepted by the Police.
Hernandez-Rodriguez is the ninth defendant to be convicted on this case, both by responsible plea or after a jury trial.
The cost of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine carries a sentence of as much as 20 years in jail, at the very least three years of supervised launch and a $1 million superb. Sentences are imposed by a federal district courtroom decide based mostly on the US Sentencing Tips and statutes governing the dedication of a sentence in a prison case.
United States Lawyer Joshua S. Levy and Brian D. Boyle, Particular Agent in Cost of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New England Area Division, made the announcement right this moment. Useful help was offered by the Connecticut State Police and the Boston, Taunton and Stratford (Conn.) Police Departments. Assistant United States Attorneys Samuel R. Feldman and Okay. Nathaniel Yeager of the Narcotics & Cash Laundering Unit are prosecuting the case.
This case is a part of a Strike Drive Initiative Forces Process Forces Organized Crime Drug Enforcement (OCDETF), which supplies for the institution of everlasting multi-agency process power groups working aspect by aspect in the identical location. This co-located mannequin permits brokers from completely different companies to collaborate in intelligence-led multi-jurisdictional operations to disrupt and dismantle probably the most important drug traffickers, cash launderers, gangs and transnational prison organizations. The OECDTF identifies, disrupts and dismantles the highest-level prison organizations that threaten the US utilizing a prosecutor-led, intelligence-led, multi-agency strategy. Extra details about the OCDETF program could be discovered at https://www.justice.gov/OCDETF.
The small print contained within the charging paperwork are allegations. The remaining defendants are presumed harmless until and till confirmed responsible past an inexpensive doubt in a courtroom of legislation.
