Bronx Man Sentenced to 135 Months for Conspiring to Distribute Over a Kilogram of Heroin in Schenectady

ALBANY, NEW YORK – Jean Carlos Rivera-Perez, aka “Tego,” age 38, of the Bronx, New York, was sentenced today to 135 months in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin to a Schenectady-based drug trafficking organization.  The announcement was made by United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith; Kevin M. Kelly, Special Agent in Charge of the Buffalo Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI); and New York State Police Superintendent Keith M. Corlett. 

United States District Judge Mae A. D’Agostino also ordered Rivera-Perez to forfeit $89,017 in heroin proceeds and to serve 5 years of post-release supervision.

In pleading guilty, Rivera-Perez admitted to being a member of a drug trafficking organization that distributed a kilogram or more of heroin in Schenectady between 2017 and December 20, 2018.  Rivera-Perez was the organization’s supplier and, through a courier, regularly delivered hundreds of grams of heroin from the Bronx to Schenectady, and received thousands of dollars in return.  The heroin was then sold in personal-use amounts in and around Schenectady by other members of the organization. 

In sentencing Rivera Perez, who has “King of Dope” tattooed across his abdomen, Judge D’Agostino found that he obtained $89,017 in heroin proceeds by suppling the organization in Schenectady.

Rivera-Perez was charged with eight other defendants, all of whom have pled guilty, and are from the Bronx, Schenectady, and Amsterdam, New York. 

The following defendants have pled guilty and face the following sentences of imprisonment:

The following defendants were sentenced to the following terms of imprisonment:

This case was investigated by HSI, the New York State Police, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the Amsterdam Police Department, and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Cyrus P.W. Rieck.