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Feds: Smuggler Who Imported Ton Of Cocaine Into US Gets 15 Years Without Parole
A man who authorities said imported almost a ton of cocaine into the United States from Venezuela, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic was sentenced in federal court in Newark to a plea-bargained federal prison term of nearly 15 years, authorities said. Edwin “Tortuga” Nieves-Rosado, a 56-year-old U.S. citizen who was living in the Dominican Republic, must serve just about all of the sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Nieves-Rosado "played a managerial role" in conspiring to smuggle the cocaine from with at least five other people from 2016 through January, 20…
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Paterson Man Goes To Federal Prison For Dealing Deadly Fentanyl
A Paterson man was sent to federal prison for 27 months after admitting that he collected what was more than two pounds of fentanyl for sale that was delivered to an address in Clifton. What Felix Acevedo, 29, didn’t know was that law enforcement officers had intercepted it. They removed the deadly synthetic opioid -- which authorities say is 50 times more potent than heroin and up to 100 times more powerful than morphine – and replaced it with a harmless substitute for what became a “controlled delivery.” Convicts technically can be sent to federal prison for life under the government’s s…