Miguel Eduardo Silva, Armed Drug Dealer, Sentenced to 10+ Years in Prison

A Charlotte man has been sentenced to over a decade in prison for his role in a deadly drug deal gone wrong.

Miguel Eduardo Silva, 20, of Charlotte, was sentenced on June 18, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. to serve 127 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release for drug trafficking and firearms offenses.

The charges against Silva stem from a superseding criminal indictment in April 2012 that charged him with one count of possession with intent to distribute marijuana, one count of attempt to distribute marijuana and one count of use of a firearm in furtherance of such drug trafficking crimes.

According to evidence presented at Silva’s trial and sentencing hearing, Silva had arranged a drug deal involving the sale of $60 worth of marijuana to a buyer. However, the buyer instead attempted to rob Silva and another passenger at gunpoint, leading Silva to pull a handgun and shoot and kill the buyer on October 3, 2011.

A federal jury convicted Silva on all counts in September 2012. In sentencing Silva, Judge Cogburn acknowledged the inherent danger that exists whenever guns and drugs are intertwined.

Silva has been in federal custody in the Western District of North Carolina since his arrest in January 2012. Upon designation of a federal facility, he will be transferred into the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Federal sentences are served without the possibility of parole.

The federal investigation was led by Homeland Security Investigations with the assistance of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. The prosecution for the government was handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney J. George Guise of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Charlotte.

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