ALSO HAD FENTANYL, HEROIN, COCAINE AND CRACK COCAINE IN HIS POSSESSION
After pleading guilty to the charges back in October of last year, RD was finally sentenced on February 23, 2024, to ten years in prison for his involvement in a gun-trafficking scheme and for role in the distribution of “fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine."
Apparently, between February and June 2022, RD sold some 17 guns, including a semi-automatic weapon, to an undercover NYPD officer, in the Prospect Park area of Brooklyn. And when he was arrested, he reportedly had in his possession “more than 80 pills containing fentanyl, more than 38 grams of a heroin/fentanyl mixture, and more than 50 grams of cocaine and more than 30 grams of crack cocaine.”
In a written statement, Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, noted that RD was “a career criminal who sold illegal guns, including an assault-type rifle, near a school, a church and on bustling streets in the heart of Brooklyn, without regard for how these lethal weapons could be used …. Today’s sentence will keep the defendant off the street for years, a punishment he deserves for his blatant disrespect for the law and his dangerous conduct. I commend the brave NYPD undercover officer, along with the Special Agents of ATF, whose excellent work kept 17 lethal weapons off the streets of our community.”
They were certainly gunning for him.
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