Portland, Maine: A
Lawrence, Massachusetts man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Portland
to conspiring to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, U.S. Attorney Halsey
B. Frank announced.
According to court records, between September 2017 and
January 2018, Pedro Perez, 29, supplied another conspirator with multi-ounce
quantities of cocaine for further distribution in the Portland area. On January
19, 2018, Perez supplied approximately 280 grams of cocaine to a member of the
conspiracy. Law enforcement officers seized the cocaine in Scarborough during a
traffic stop.
Perez faces between five and 40 years in prison, a
$5,000,000 fine and between four years and life on supervised release. He will
be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigation report by the
U.S. Probation Office.
The FBI, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the
South Portland Police Department investigated the case.
The prosecution is a result of the ongoing efforts by the
Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) Program, a partnership
between federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. The OCDETF mission
is to identify, investigate and prosecute high-level members of drug
trafficking enterprises, bringing together the combined expertise and unique
abilities of federal, state and local law enforcement.
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