Bronx, New York Man Sentenced on Drug Charges
| U.S. Attorney’s Office March 23, 2009 |
BOSTON, MA—A Bronx, New York man was sentenced late Friday in federal court for Conspiracy and Distribution of Crack Cocaine.
United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan; Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Boston Field Division; William Fitchett, Commissioner of the Springfield Police Department; Colonel Mark Delaney, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police; and Michael Ashe, Sheriff of Hampden County announced that ISAAC TORRES, age 24, of Bronx, New York, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael A. Ponsor to 2 years imprisonment, to be followed by four years of supervised release. TORRES pled guilty to Conspiracy and Distribution of Crack Cocaine on December 18, 2008.
At the earlier plea hearing, the prosecutor told the Court that had the case proceeded to trial the Government’s evidence would have proven that TORRES, working with this coconspirators, helped to sell crack cocaine in November 2007.
The case was investigated by the FBI’s Western Massachusetts Gang Task Force, a Safe Street/HIDTA Initiative. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Alex J. Grant of Sullivan's Springfield Branch.