Kerome Lendon Paisley, 49, of Jamaica, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring to traffic more than a kilogram of fentanyl while already incarcerated, the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced on Tuesday, April 28.
Prosecutors said Paisley used a contraband cellphone in February 2025 to coordinate the sale of more than 10,000 counterfeit fentanyl pills designed to resemble legitimate 30-milligram oxycodone tablets.
A co-conspirator then took the pills to Peekskill, where authorities seized them before they could be distributed.
At the time, Paisley was nearing the end of a nearly 22-year federal prison sentence tied to a prior narcotics trafficking conspiracy. Investigators identified him as the organizer of the scheme and arrested him on the same day he was scheduled to be released.
In addition to the prison term, Paisley was sentenced to five years of supervised release.
The case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations and the Drug Enforcement Administration and prosecuted by the US Attorney’s Office in White Plains.
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