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WILMINGTON On Wednesday a Wilmington man, 31-year-old Miguel Angel Ramos, was sentenced in Raleigh’s Federal District Court to 156 months in prison.
Ramos was charged on July 25, 2019 for distribution of a quantity of fentanyl. Wilmington Safe Street Task Force agents and a confidential source (CI) caught Ramos distributing two controlled substances of suspected heroin laced with the synthetic opioid.
According to a release, a CI worked with agents to purchase heroin from Ramos twice within a week. The first time was on July 17, 2019 at a Greenfield Lake area gas station. The CI met Ramos and handed over $300 to buy 50 bags of suspected heroin.
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Aroostook County Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Drug Charges
A Presque Isle man pleaded guilty in two separate cases in federal court Thursday to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank made the announcement Thursday.
According to court records, between approximately January 2017 and August 2018, 29-year-old Tyler Neece and his co-conspirators obtained methamphetamine from an out-of-state source and distributed the drugs in northern Maine. In this case, Neece faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $1 million. He also faces between three years and a lifetime of supervised release.
PITTSBURGH Richard Bracey was sentenced to 18 months in prison for conspiring to launder drug-trafficking proceeds between 2017 and 2019, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
Bracey, age 44, was sentenced by United States District Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan. Judge Ranjan directed that the prison sentence be served consecutively to the federal prison sentence Bracey was serving for first-degree murder at the time of the crime. Judge Ranjan also directed that Bracey serve one year of supervised release following his prison sentence.
Bracey was incarcerated at USP-Lee in Virginia when he conspired to launder the proceeds of the distribution of Schedule I synthetic cannabinoid controlled substances. Such substances have caused severe illness and deaths throughout the United States in recent years.