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Syracuse Man Sentenced for Role in Drug Conspiracy

For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of New York

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Luis Carrasquillo, age 34, of Syracuse was sentenced today to serve 71 months in federal prison for his membership in a conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, and his previous guilty plea to distribution of a mixture of heroin and fentanyl, as well as cocaine, announced United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, John B. DeVito, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and Chief Kenton Buckner, City of Syracuse Police Department.

As part of his previous guilty plea, Carrasquillo admitted that he conspired with Waldemar Colon and Isidro De Los Santos to sell heroin mixed with fentanyl, and cocaine from De los Santos’s apartment on Gifford Street in Syracuse as part of a conspiracy that existed from December 2018 through January 31, 2019. Carrasquillo also pled guilty to aiding and abetting the sale of a mixture of heroin and fentanyl, as well as a separate quantity of cocaine on December 6, 2018.

On January 31, 2019, ATF Special Agents assisted by DEA and the Syracuse Police Department-Intelligence Unit executed a federal search warrant at Isidro De Los Santos’s residence and recovered over twenty-one ounces (608 grams) of heroin mixed with fentanyl in two packages. A federal search warrant executed at the adjacent apartment of another involved defendant, Anthony Moreno, on the same day resulted in the seizure of over 18 ounces (521grams) of cocaine.

Carrasquillo was also ordered to serve a 3-year term of supervised release following his prison sentence.

Isidro De Los Santos pled guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, and distribution of controlled substances, and was sentenced on November 13, 2020 to serve a sentence of nine years (108 months) in prison, and a 5-year term of supervised release.

Anthony Moreno pled guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, and on November 17, 2020 was sentenced on to serve 51 months in prison, followed by a 5-year term of supervised release.

Waldemar Colon pled guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, and distribution of controlled substances, and is awaiting sentencing.

This case was investigated by the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Syracuse Police Department-Intelligence Section, and the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Southwick.

Updated November 4, 2021

Topics
Drug Trafficking
Opioids