Leonard Leseman, Methamphetamine Distribution, Massachusetts 2017

BOSTON – In a shocking revelation, a San Diego man has been found guilty of sending over 30 packages of methamphetamine through the mail to various addresses in Massachusetts.

Leonard Leseman, 58, pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute methamphetamine in federal court in Boston. U.S. District Court Judge Leo S. Sorokin scheduled sentencing for September 14, 2017.

According to investigators, Leseman supplied methamphetamine to co-defendant Robert Annette from approximately 2011 through October 2013. The methamphetamine was sent in packages from San Diego to Annette’s residences in Somerville and Provincetown.

When a Postal Inspector attempted to deliver a suspicious package to Annette’s Somerville residence in 2012, Annette refused receipt. From then on, Annette arranged for a network of friends to receive the packages. Leseman mailed more than 30 packages containing methamphetamine to various addresses provided by Annette, including packages seized in Washington, D.C., and Carnegie, Penn.

Leseman and Annette communicated via text message to discuss the logistics of orders, shipments, and payments. One notable example of their communication was when Leseman advised Annette, ‘You’ll see 3 blind mice eating ice cream.’ Inside the package were three toy mice and an ice cream maker with four ounces of methamphetamine hidden inside.

Annette and three other individuals, Steven Marszalkowski of Provincetown; Lawrence Ligocki, of Chelsea; and Scott Hill, of Somerville, previously pleaded guilty to various charges in connection with this investigation. Scott Hill was sentenced on April 12, 2017, to 42 months in prison.

Acting United States Attorney William D. Weinreb; Shelly Binkowski, Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Boston Field Division; and Harold H. Shaw, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Field Division, made the announcement today. Assistant U.S. Attorneys James E. Arnold and Craig E. Estes of Weinreb’s Narcotics and Money Laundering Unit are prosecuting the case.

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