Press Release
CHAMPION EUROPEAN RACE CAR DRIVER SENTENCED IN ECSTASY CASE
November 6, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Jeffery H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Anthony V. Mangione, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Office of Investigations, announced that defendant Mariusz Dawid Malyszczycki, 37, of Poland, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Federico A. Moreno to 37 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Malyszczycki, a successful competitive race car driver in Poland before he was extradited to the United States for this case, had been convicted of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, otherwise known as MDMA or Ecstasy.
According to Malyszczycki’s signed factual proffer, in 2004, ICE special agents received a tip that he and another man, Malyszczycki’s co-conspirator, Peter Plinelis, 39, formerly residing in Pompano Beach, were involved in the smuggling of Ecstasy from Europe to the United States. On March 25, 2004, two undercover agents—one with ICE and one with the Miami Dade Police Department—set up a meeting with Malyszczycki and Plinelis at a Don Pan Bakery in Miami. At the meeting, Malyszczycki and Plinelis asked the undercover agents if they had any connections at the Miami Seaport that would enable them to smuggle containers into the U.S. without having to clear Customs. Malyszczycki and Plinelis told the undercover agents that they had 50,000 pills of Ecstasy to smuggle. Malyszczycki and Plinelis told the undercover agents that the Ecstasy would be coming straight from Holland and would be 100 percent pure. As well, Malyszczycki and Plinelis told the undercover agents that they wanted to establish a long term business relationship. The undercover agents agreed to buy a sample of the Malyszczycki and Plinelis’ imported Ecstasy before they would agree to do more deals.
Malyszczycki, Plinelis, and the two undercover agents met again at the Don Pan Bakery a few days later, on March 30, 2004. Malyszczycki and Plinelis said that they had 50,000 pills of Ecstasy in Canada, ready to be sold. Malyszczycki and Plinelis asked the undercover agents if they had any connection in Canada to smuggle the 50,000 pills into the United States. Malyszczycki and Plinelis also said that they had 3,000 pills of Ecstasy to sell to the undercover agents immediately as a sample. The undercover agents agreed to buy 1,000 pills of Ecstasy as a sample.
On April 23, 2004, the undercover agents met Plinelis at the Don Pan Bakery and bought 1,002 pills of Ecstasy from him. Malyszczycki had already returned to Poland, where he was a citizen and resided.
The ICE led investigation resulted in the seizure of an additional 40,000 tablets of ecstasy, a vehicle, and the arrest and federal convictions of two co-conspirators, Plinelis and Barbara Klinkosz, 42, a Polish citizen.
Mr. Sloman commended ICE’s Office of Investigations in Miami for its six-month undercover investigation on this case. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. Luck.
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