Jepherson Emanuel Cabrera, an 18-year-old man from Lawrence, Massachusetts, has pleaded guilty to participating in a massive fentanyl trafficking conspiracy in New Hampshire.
According to court documents and statements made in court, a drug trafficking organization led by Sergio Martinez employed Cabrera to sell fentanyl to customers from various New England states, including New Hampshire. The organization provided Cabrera with at least one 200-gram bag of fentanyl each day and expected him to sell it and return approximately $6,000 in proceeds. On more than 20 days, Cabrera sold at least one 200-gram bag of fentanyl. He even employed at least one runner to conduct actual hand-to-hand transactions with customers.
Cabrera is scheduled to be sentenced on November 29, 2018. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years of imprisonment and a maximum sentence of life, a fine up to 10 million dollars and a term of supervised release of at least five years and as much as life.
This investigation was conducted by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF), a federal multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional task force that supplies supplemental federal funding to federal and state agencies involved in the identification, investigation, and prosecution of major drug trafficking organizations.
The case was a collaborative effort involving the DEA; the New Hampshire State Police; the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office; the Nashua Police Department; the Massachusetts State Police; the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office; the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office; the Essex County District Attorney’s Office; the Internal Revenue Service; Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations; United States Customs and Border Protection Boston Field Office; the United States Marshals Service; the United States Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service; the Manchester Police Department; the Lisbon Police Department; the Littleton Police Department; the Seabrook Police Department; the Haverhill (MA) Police Department; the Methuen (MA) Police Department; the Lowell (MA) Police Department; and the Maine State Police.
Cabrera is the first defendant to plead guilty in this massive fentanyl trafficking conspiracy. Thirty-three additional defendants have been charged. U.S. Attorney Scott W. Murray vowed to continue working with law enforcement to stop the flow of fentanyl in New Hampshire.
“Fentanyl trafficking has caused tremendous damage in New Hampshire,” said U.S. Attorney Murray. “In order to protect the citizens of the Granite State, we will continue to work closely with the entire law enforcement community to stop the flow of this deadly drug. It is imperative that we dismantle the criminal organizations that profit from the sale of illegal substances.”
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Key Facts
- State: New Hampshire
- Category: Drug Trafficking
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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