SCRANTON—The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle
District of Pennsylvania announced that on December 19, 2019, Malcom Wilfong,
age 28, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge
Robert D. Mariani to 55 months’ imprisonment for participating in a
methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy that operated in Schuylkill and Berks
Counties.
According to United States Attorney David J. Freed, Wilfong
previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute more than 500 grams of
methamphetamine between July 2016 and May 2017.
Wilfong is the fourth defendant connected to the
methamphetamine ring to be sentenced in federal court. Anibal Rodriguez, the
leader of the drug conspiracy, was previously sentenced to 20 years’
imprisonment. Ernest Schaeffer received a 15-year prison sentence. David Castro
was sentenced to 57 months’ imprisonment.
The matter was investigated by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Pennsylvania State Police, and the Shenandoah Police
Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Francis P. Sempa prosecuted the case.
This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a
program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities
they serve to reduce violent crime and make our neighborhoods safer for everyone.
The Department of Justice reinvigorated PSN in 2017 as part of the Department’s
renewed focus on targeting violent criminals, directing all U.S. Attorney’s
Offices to work in partnership with federal, state, local, and tribal law
enforcement and the local community to develop effective, locally-based
strategies to reduce violent crime.
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