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Baldwin resident Rafael Antonio Fabian, 43, was found guilty for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute narcotics, specifically crack cocaine in Brooklyn, U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue said. When he is sentenced, he faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison.
Between January 2014 and March 2016, Fabian conspired with others to supply drug dealers in the Sunset Park and Bay Ridge neighborhoods. Fabian, who referred to himself using the aliases “Calvo,” “Rafaelito” and “Alofoke Music,” supplied co-conspirators with Blackberry phones that he believed to be secure because the messages were encrypted.
Donoghue said that the evidence at trial included testimony from co-conspirators, narcotics seizures, ledgers containing the names of drug customers and transactions, and more than 50 pages of messages from Blackberry phones seized from co-conspirators detailing their drug trafficking activity.
Fabian and his cohorts maintained a stash apartment in Sunset Park, and he employed a crew of runners to deal the drugs. When he made the deliveries himself, Fabian drove several vehicles, including an Audi that investigators found was equipped with a secret trap compartment in the glove box to hide the drugs.
“With today’s verdict and the previous guilty pleas of his co-conspirators, Fabian’s poison-pushing drug trafficking operation has been dismantled,” Donoghue said. “Together with our law enforcement partners, this Office will be unrelenting in pursuing networks like Fabian’s that imperil our communities.”
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