CAMDEN, N.J. – A nearly three-year conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine in the Atlantic City, New Jersey area has resulted in a guilty plea from a Pleasantville man.
Ronald Douglas Byrd, 51, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Jerome B. Simandle in Camden federal court to Count One of an indictment charging him with conspiring with others to distribute more than 280 grams of crack cocaine. Byrd admitted that he and others engaged in a drug trafficking conspiracy through which Byrd distributed more than one kilogram of crack cocaine from February 2012 through Dec. 10, 2014.
The distribution conspiracy charge to which Byrd pleaded guilty is punishable by a minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum potential penalty of life in prison and a $10 million fine. Sentencing is scheduled for June 10, 2016. Byrd is the sixth person to plead guilty to participating in this drug trafficking conspiracy.
The conspiracy used Byrd’s Pleasantville residence and at least two other residences in Pleasantville and Absecon to store and package cocaine and crack cocaine. Byrd is represented by Michael Huff Esq., Philadelphia.
U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman credited special agents of the FBI’s Newark Division, Atlantic City Resident Agency, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Richard M. Frankel; the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Newark Division, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Carl J. Kotowski; the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office, under the direction of Prosecutor James P. McClain; and the Atlantic City Police Department, under the direction of Police Chief Henry White, with the investigation leading to today’s plea.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Diana Vondra Carrig of the U.S. Attorney’s Office Criminal Division in Camden represents the government in this case. The remaining defendants are scheduled to go on trial on May 23, 2016.
Byrd’s guilty plea is the latest in a series of convictions resulting from the investigation into the large-scale crack cocaine trafficking conspiracy. Francisco Alberto Rascon-Muracami, 22, of Obregon, Mexico, was sentenced to 70 months in prison on October 30, 2015. Five other individuals have also pleaded guilty to participating in the conspiracy and are awaiting sentencing.
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Key Facts
- State: New Jersey
- Category: Drug Trafficking|Fraud & Financial Crimes|Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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