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Grove City Man Sentenced for Distributing Heroin

For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Ohio

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Roman Hernandez, 38, of Grove City, was sentenced U.S. District Court to 60 months in prison on one count of possession with the intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin and one count of money laundering.

 

Benjamin C. Glassman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Frank S. Turner II, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office, Trevor Velinor, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), Steve Francis, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Franklin County Sheriff Dallas Baldwin and other members of Central Ohio High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force announced the sentence handed down Friday by Senior U.S. District Judge James L. Graham.

 

According to court documents, through a joint investigation conducted by the IRS, ATF, and the Central Ohio HIDTA in cooperation with the Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission, Hernandez was identified as a narcotics trafficker that was involved in the sale of heroin.

 

Investigators executed a search warrant at Hernandez’s home on Norwood Street in Columbus on April 9, 2013. During the course of the search warrant, they seized in excess of $55,000, financial records, and documents detailing the purchase of a home for $70,000 in cash.

 

Hernandez also withdrew $26,000 from his personal checking account and purchased a cashier’s check to be used towards the purchase of the home. The funds used by Hernandez to purchase this property were proceeds he derived from sale of narcotics.

 

U.S. Attorney Glassman commended the investigation of this case by the Central Ohio HIDTA Task Force, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Prichard, who prosecuted this case.

 

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Updated May 31, 2017

Topic
Drug Trafficking