NEWARK, N.J. – A Hudson County, New Jersey, man was sentenced to 51 months in jail for conspiring to distribute and possessing with intent to distribute cocaine, U.S. Legal professional Philip R. Sellinger introduced in the present day.
Jerome Powell, 43, of Jersey Metropolis, New Jersey, beforehand pleaded responsible earlier than U.S. District Court docket Decide Susan D. Wigenton to a superseding data charging him with one depend of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and one depend of possession with intent to distribute cocaine. Decide Wigenton imposed the sentence by videoconference on Jan. 10, 2023.
In accordance with the paperwork filed on this case and statements made in court docket:
From August 2019 via Feb. 2, 2020, Powell and others agreed to own and distribute narcotics in Jersey Metropolis. Upon his arrest, Powell had 400 vials of cocaine in his pocket.
Along with the jail time period, Decide Wigenton sentenced Powell to a few years of supervised launch.
U.S. Legal professional Sellinger credited particular brokers and job drive officers of the Drug Enforcement Administration, beneath the path of Performing Particular Agent in Cost Daniel J. Kafafian, New Jersey Division; and members of the Jersey Metropolis Police Division, beneath the path of Public Security Director James Shea, with the investigation resulting in in the present day’s sentencing.
This investigation was carried out as a part of the Jersey Metropolis Violent Crime Initiative (VCI). The VCI was fashioned in 2018 by the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace for the District of New Jersey, the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Workplace, and the Jersey Metropolis Police Division, for the only objective of combatting violent crime in and round Jersey Metropolis. As a part of this partnership, federal, state, county, and metropolis companies collaborate to strategize and prioritize the prosecution of violent offenders who endanger the protection of the group. The VCI consists of the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace, the FBI, the ATF, the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) New Jersey Division, the U.S. Marshals, the Jersey Metropolis Police Division, the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Workplace, the Hudson County Sheriff’s Workplace, New Jersey State Parole, the Hudson County Jail, and the New Jersey State Police Regional Operations and Intelligence Heart/Actual Time Crime Heart.
The federal government is represented by Assistant U.S. Legal professional Tracey Agnew of the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace in Trenton.