WORCESTER – A Worcester man was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday in federal court for his role in a cocaine trafficking ring responsible for smuggling more than 20 kilos of cocaine in central Massachusetts.
Deibby Garcia, 37, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and five years of supervised release. Garcia previously pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute in excess of five kilograms of cocaine and possession with the intent to distribute over 500 grams of cocaine.
Garcia is the third of four defendants to be sentenced in this investigation. All of the defendants are from Worcester.
Jose Gonzalez was sentenced on Sept. 24, 2019, to 10 years in prison and Japhet Garcia was sentenced on Oct. 1, 2019, to 40 months in prison.
Co-defendant Erick Cruz is scheduled to be sentenced today — Friday, Nov. 8.
An investigation conducted in connection with federal wiretaps revealed that in Dec. 2017, Gonzalez had been the intended recipient of a package mailed from Puerto Rico containing three kilograms of cocaine.
In Jan. 2018, more wiretaps and surveillance revealed Gonzalez participated in attempting to smuggle an additional six kilograms of cocaine from Puerto Rico.
In this scheme, Gonzalez, Garcia and the other defendants were using a U.S. Postal employee to retrieve the packages of cocaine.
As it unfolded, agents seized one of the packages — found to contain three kilograms of cocaine — and allowed the second to be delivered to the conspiracy members under continuing electronic and physical surveillance.
Authorities observed the postal employee deliver the package to a conspirator and then arrested several additional co-defendants. The second package was seized, and was found to contain another three kilograms of cocaine.
Over $40,000 in cash and drug ledgers documenting the sale of well over 20 kilograms of cocaine were also seized during a search.
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