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ORLEANS PARISH MAN PLEADS GUILTY IN FEDERAL COURT TO DRUG CHARGES
November 20, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JERMAINE ZENO, age 21, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty yesterday in federal court before U. S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon to federal felonies involving the sale of crack cocaine within 1,000 feet of a public housing authority, announced U. S. Attorney Jim Letten today.
According to documents filed in federal court, ZENO was arrested for trespassing in the abandoned Iberville Housing Project on September 26, 2007 by New Orleans Police Officers. Further investigation revealed that ZENO was in possession of fifty-seven (57) pieces of foil containing heroin and two baggies of crack cocaine.
The defendant faces a maximum sentence of forty (40) years imprisonment, a $2,000,000 fine, forfeiture of the drugs and six (6) years of federal supervision after the completion of a prison sentence. ZENO was indicted by a federal grand jury on April 3, 2008 and will be sentenced on February 18, 2009.
This case was investigated by the New Orleans Police Department and Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The prosecution by Assistant United States Attorneys Abram McGull, II and Edward J. Rivera of the Violent Crime Unit.
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