SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Yoan Rodriguez, age 24, of Syracuse, was sentenced in the present day to serve a complete of 120 months incarceration primarily based on his earlier responsible plea to drug trafficking and firearms offenses, introduced United States Legal professional Carla B. Freedman, Particular Agent in Cost Frank A. Tarentino, III, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New York Division, Particular Agent in Cost Janeen DiGuiseppi, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Albany Discipline Workplace, and Chief of Police Joseph Cecile, Syracuse Police Division. Rodriguez was additionally ordered to serve a time period of five-years supervised launch following his launch from jail, and to forfeit to the USA a handgun and a cash judgment within the quantity of $35,000.00, representing the worth of unrecovered drug proceeds.
Rodriguez was one among 14 defendants charged and convicted on this case. The investigation revealed that members of the conspiracy introduced kilogram portions of heroin and fentanyl from Pennsylvania to Syracuse, the place they packaged the medication and distributed them over a number of months in 2020. Throughout the investigation, legislation enforcement seized a number of kilograms of heroin and fentanyl, a number of firearms, a number of automobiles, and huge sums of United States forex. The opposite defendants charged on this case, and the sentences they obtained, are listed under.
|
Defendant |
Age |
Residence |
Jail Sentence |
|
Alejandro De Jesus Tavarez |
31 |
Syracuse |
120 months |
|
Alexander Tavarez Espinal |
37 |
Syracuse |
120 months |
|
Jan Leonel Vazquez Familia |
31 |
Hazelton, PA |
68 months |
|
Jahdier Dowdell |
20 |
Syracuse |
70 months |
|
Maurice Graves |
24 |
Syracuse |
123 months |
|
Kamiya Joe, aka “Ok-Joe” |
24 |
Syracuse |
36 months |
|
Jonah Sutton, aka “Kunsa” |
28 |
Syracuse |
31 months |
|
Dianisha Trapps, aka “Dutchess” |
28 |
Syracuse |
24 months |
|
Tacarra Newton, aka “T-Newt” |
26 |
Syracuse |
60 months |
|
Tywone Haskins, aka “Ty” |
23 |
Syracuse |
60 months |
|
Joshua Stanley, aka “40” |
27 |
Syracuse |
30 months |
|
Shateek Brown, aka “Teek” and “Stu” |
27 |
Syracuse |
41 months |
|
Treyquwan Rucker |
24 |
Syracuse |
120 months |
This case was investigated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Syracuse Police Division-Gang Violence Job Power and Particular Investigations Division (GVTF and SID), the New York State Police, the U.S. Division of Homeland Safety-Immigration and Customs Enforcement/Enforcement Removing Operations (ICE-ERO), the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Workplace, the Auburn Police Division, and the Onondaga County District Legal professional’s Workplace, and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Legal professional Nicolas Commandeur.
This effort is a part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Job Forces (OCDETF) operation. OCDETF identifies, disrupts, and dismantles the highest-level legal organizations that threaten the USA utilizing a prosecutor-led, intelligence-driven, multi-agency method. Extra details about the OCDETF Program may be discovered at https://www.justice.gov/OCDETF.
