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Two Sentenced For Role in Cocaine Trafficking Ring
By Submitted Report
The Tube City Almanac
June 13, 2017
Posted in: Crime and Police News
Two city residents were sentenced to three years in federal prison for their role in a drug trafficking ring that also snared the former postmaster of West Newton.
Jeffrey Turner, 35, and April Racan, 37, also will face five years' probation following their release under the sentence handed down last week by U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab in Pittsburgh.
Federal prosecutors said that from 2011 and 2015, Racan and Turner acted as the local contact persons for an alleged drug dealer in Brownsville, Texas, Dante Lozano. Investigators allege that Lozano mailed dozens of packages of cocaine, weighing about 18 pounds total, to Racan and Turner in Elizabeth and McKeesport.
Turner and Racan then sold the cocaine to others in the Mon Valley, Acting U.S. Attorney Soo C. Song said in a statement, then sent the proceeds from the drug dealers back to Lozano in the form of postal money orders totalling $116,700.
Racan and Turner were charged with distribution of cocaine and money laundering.
Five other defendants were previously convicted and sentenced, Song said, while Lozano is scheduled to be sentenced on June 22.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory J. Nescott prosecuted this case on behalf of the government, which was investigated by the U.S. Postal Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration, Song said.
Originally published June 13, 2017.
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