FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TUESDAY April 7, 2009
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SPRINGFIELD MAN INDICTED FOR DISTRIBUTING COCAINE
Springfield, MA . . . A Springfield man was indicted today in U.S. District Court for possessing cocaine with intent to distribute.
United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan; William M. Bennett, District Attorney for Hampden County; Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent In Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Boston Field Division; Colonel Mark F. Delaney, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police; Commissioner William Fitchet of the Springfield Police Department; and Chief Anthony Scott of the Holyoke Police Department announced that JIMMY ROMAN ROSARIO, age 41 of Springfield, MA, was charged by a federal grand jury in an Indictment charging him with possessing 17 kilograms of cocaine with intent to distribute on August 17, 2006. ROSARIO was charged as a result of a search of his apartment on August 17, 2006.
If convicted, ROSARIO faces a mandatory penalty of life in prison, six years supervised release and a $2 million fine.
The case was investigated by the FBI’s Western Massachusetts Gang Task Force, the Massachusetts State Police Hampden County Drug Task Force, the Springfield Police Department and the Holyoke Police Department. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Todd E. Newhouse and Paul Hart Smyth in Sullivan's Springfield Office.
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