News Release
U.S. Department of Justice
United States Attorney
District of Rhode Island
May 1, 2008
Convicted drug dealer, previously deported is sentenced to 41 months for reentering the U.S.
A federal judge today sentenced Domingo Enrique Lorenzo-Ferrera to 41 months in federal prison for being in the United States illegally after having been deported. U.S. District Court Judge Mary M. Lisi rejected Lorenzo-Ferrera’s claim that he was a shoe salesman, and took note of evidence collected by federal agents that he is a drug dealer. Ferrera served a previous federal prison sentence for drug trafficking, and was subsequently deported.
United States Attorney Robert Clark Corrente announced the sentence, which Judge Lisi imposed in U.S. District Court, Providence.
In a sentencing memorandum, Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter F. Neronha discredited Lorenzo-Ferrera’s claim that he earned $100 a week selling shoes by detailing evidence that agents seized last August from an apartment that Ferrera used on Linwood Avenue, Providence. Agents found in the apartment $1,030 in cash, a trace amount of cocaine, marijuana, a digital scale, a sifter, a box of sandwich bags, a heat sealer, and two empty bottles of a material that traffickers use to cut the strength of cocaine, all suggesting that Lorenzo-Ferrera was in the drug-trafficking trade.
A citizen of the Dominican Republic, Lorenzo-Ferrera was convicted in Washington, D.C. in 1987 of cocaine trafficking, was sentenced to prison, and was deported in 1995.
Rhode Island State Police detectives assigned to the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Task Force, along with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, arrested Lorenzo-Ferrera on a charge of illegal reentry after executing a search warrant at the Linwood Avenue apartment on August 6. He pleaded guilty to the charge in February.
After completing his prison sentence, Lorenzo-Ferrera, 40, will again be subject to deportation.
Contact: 401-709-5032 Thomas.connell@usdoj.gov