Fitchburg Latin Kings member pleads guilty to federal drug charges
BOSTON A woman who conspired with a member of the Fitchburg Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (Latin Kings) could face 20 years in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to drug distribution charges.
Sophia Velasquez, 28, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl after being charged following a multi-agency task force through the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, a partnership between federal, state and local law enforcement agencies..
Velasquez admitted to conspiring with Dairon Rivera, who uses the alias King Mafia, to sell 17 grams of fentanyl to a witness who was cooperating with investigators. That transaction that was recorded on audio and video.
BOSTON – A member of the Fitchburg chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation will be sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty Wednesday to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl.
Dairon Rivera, aka “King Mafia,” 27, pleaded guilty to the charge and sentencing was set for April 1 by U.S. Senior District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel.
Rivera was charged in December 2019, at which time he was a member of the Fitchburg chapter of the Latin Kings, a violent criminal enterprise composed of thousands of members across the United States, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Andrew E. Lelling.
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