Fentanyl in Bronx Parking Lot
Asked for 6 Months Gets 66
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
April 17 – A man charged
with selling fentanyl to an
undercover officer in a
parking lot in the Bronx is up
for sentencing in the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
on April 13. Inner City Press
is covering the case.
He pled
guilty, with a five year
mandatory minimum. His
sentencing memo says he was
born in Portugal in 1979 and
grew up with a refrigerator.
ICE
records show he entered the US
in 2006, and became a
naturalized US citizen in
2015. In the MDC, it says, he
has an exemplary work history.
The US Attorney’s
Office countered that a
sentence of 96 months – eight
years – is needed.
He was sentenced
to 66 months, followed by four
years of supervised release.
The case is
USA v. Barreiro, 1:25-cr-54
(Garnett)
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