Monday, May 03, 2021
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Agustin Vinas, 51, has been ordered detained in federal custody in an alleged murder-for-hire plot. It is alleged that the Providence resident attempted to hire a person to kill two others.
One of those he was targeting for murder, according to the Justice Department was another contractor he claimed owed him $8,500 and who had threatened to harm Vinas family if he did not stop his repeated requests for payment, and the second target was an employee of the contractor.
It is alleged in court documents that on April 19, 2021, Vinas had a chance meeting with an acquaintance. Vinas told that person of his unsuccessful attempts to collect money he was owed by a contractor, of the contractor’s threat against his family, and that he wanted to hire someone to kill the contractor and another man. Vinas’s acquaintance told him that he might know of someone interested in the job and that he would be in touch shortly.GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HE
23-year-old man from Providence accused of driving to Massachusetts to sell fentanyl in exchange for guns
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A 23-year-old man from Providence, who was previously convicted on drug charges and awaiting trial on assault and gun charges, now faces federal charges linked to delivering fentanyl to customers in Massachusetts and, at times, trading for firearms as payment, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Rhode Island.
Joaquin Fabian was detained on drug trafficking and weapons charges following an investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Providence police.
Fabian appeared before U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Lincoln D. Almond on Thursday and was charged with with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, possession of ammunition by a prohibited person, possession of more than 40 grams of fentanyl with intent to distribute, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a d
Monday, December 14, 2020
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A Providence man currently serving a term of federal supervised release, having completed a 20-year federal prison sentence for trafficking cocaine, has been ordered detained in federal custody following his arrest for allegedly trafficking multiple kilograms of cocaine.
Jesus Martinez, 38, was arrested by U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) agents following an investigation into the alleged shipment into Rhode Island of multiple packages sent through the Postal Service containing significant quantities of cocaine, and multiple shipments to Puerto Rico via the U.S Postal Service of large sums of cash.
According to court documents, in October, a parcel containing $46,500 shipped to Puerto Rico by Martinez was seized by USPIS agents. Subsequently, it is alleged, parcels found to contain varying amounts of cocaine were shipped from Puerto Rico to various Rhode Island addresses associated with Martinez. Two parcel seizures revealed a