Genesee County Man Pleads Guilty to Drug Conspiracy
| U.S. Attorney’s Office July 22, 2010 |
ROCHESTER, NY—U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced today that Kenneth Munnings, 44, of Batavia, New York, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa to a felony charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $1 million.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Brett A. Harvey, who is handling the case, stated that the charges stemmed from a joint federal, state, and local wiretap investigation which revealed that the defendant was responsible for obtaining significant quantities of methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana from a drug trafficking network in Rochester and distributing those drugs to others in the Genesee County area between approximately 2006 and October 2008.
The Complaint was brought after an investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the direction of Special Agent In Charge James H. Robertson; the New York State Police, under the direction of Major Matthew Renneman; the Drug Enforcement Administration, under the direction of Resident Agent in Charge Charles Tomaszewski; and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Frank Christiano.
Sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 1, 2010, at 4:00 p.m., in Rochester, New York, in front of Judge Siragusa.