BOSTON – A Springfield man was sentenced today in federal
court in Springfield for distributing crack cocaine.
Andrew Cruz, 26, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge
Mark G. Mastroianni to three years in prison and three years of supervised
release. On June 15, 2016, Cruz pleaded guilty to distribution and possession
with intent to distribute cocaine base. He has been in custody since his
arrest.
Cruz sold a cooperating witness cocaine base, also known as
crack, on two occasions in July 2015.
Cruz is currently in custody on firearms and drug offenses
charged in the District of Vermont. He faces two five-year mandatory minimum
sentences, to be imposed consecutively, for distributing more than 28 grams of
cocaine base, cocaine, and oxycodone – while possessing a 9mm Beretta handgun –
and distributing heroin and cocaine base on two more occasions. The sentence
imposed today will be served concurrent to whatever sentence is imposed in the
pending cases in the District of Vermont.
United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling; Harold H. Shaw,
Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Field
Division; Colonel Kerry A. Gilpin, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State
Police; Springfield Police Commissioner John Barbieri; and Holyoke Police Chief
James M. Neiswanger made the announcement today. Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Newhouse
of Lelling’s Springfield Branch Office prosecuted the case.
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