A Manhattan dealer has been sentenced to 270 months in prison for his role in a massive fentanyl and methamphetamine trafficking operation.
U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff handed down the sentence to Mounir Mrabet, 40, of New York, New York, after a jury convicted him of narcotics conspiracy, narcotics trafficking, and a firearms offense in November 2023.
According to prosecutors, Mrabet coordinated with suppliers in Mexico and California to receive boxes of crystal methamphetamine and fentanyl in the mail from at least late 2021 to January 2023. He then worked with co-conspirators to distribute wholesale quantities of these drugs to other dealers in New York City, and he kept a gun and used threats to promote his drug operations.
Prosecutors said that Mrabet’s operation was so brazen that he even stored and sold drugs out of hotel rooms, with one video depicting stacks of cash, bundles of apparent drugs, and a revolver. Additional videos, photographs, and text messages confirmed that Mrabet stored and sold drugs out of hotel rooms.
After Mrabet was recorded selling drugs to an undercover detective, including fake oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl, law enforcement agents conducted a search of his Manhattan apartment and seized 24 pounds of crystal methamphetamine and, from the scaffolding outside his window, approximately half a pound of fentanyl powder.
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams praised the outstanding investigative work of Task Force Officers assigned to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Homeland Security Investigations, the New York City Police Department, and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
In addition to the prison term, Mrabet was sentenced to five years of supervised release. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jane Y. Chong and Edward C. Robinson Jr. are in charge of the prosecution.
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Key Facts
- State: New York
- Agency: DOJ USAO
- Category: Drug Trafficking
- Source: Official Source ↗
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