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Date: 12-29-2017
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United States of America v. Jose David Silva Pastano
District of Connecticut Federal Courthouse - Hartford, Connecticut
Case Number: 3:17-cr-00055-VLB
Judge: Vanessa L. Bryant
Court: United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Hartford County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: Joseph Vizcarrondo and Alina Reynolds
Defendant's Attorney: Morgan Rueckert and Amanda Oakes
Description: Hartford, CT - Citizen of Mexico Pleads Guilty to Heroin Trafficking Offenses
JOSE DAVID SILVA PESTANO, 33, a citizen of Mexico, pleaded guilty on December 22, 2017 before U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to heroin trafficking charges.
According to court documents, SILVA PESTANO and others conspired to traffic multi-kilogram quantities of heroin from Mexico to the Bridgeport, Connecticut area. On multiple occasions between approximately April 2015 and March 2017, SILVA PESTANO personally transported more than 30 kilograms of heroin into Connecticut.
On February 14, 2017, SILVA PESTANO was arrested in Nogales, Arizona, after he crossed the border on a motorcycle carrying 11.94 kilograms of heroin in a concealed compartment.
On March 16, 2017, a grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment charging SILVA PESTANO and six other individuals with conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, and related offenses. SILVA PESTANO also was charged in the District of Arizona with possession with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin. The Arizona case was transferred to the District of Connecticut for further prosecution.
SILVA PESTANO pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, and one count of possession with intent to distribute one kilogram of heroin.
Judge Bryant scheduled sentencing for March 22, 2018, at which time SILVA PESTANO faces a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 10 years maximum term of imprisonment of life.
SILVA PESTANO has been detained since his arrest.
This matter is being investigated by the FBI’s Bridgeport Safe Streets Task Force, DEA’s Bridgeport High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force, and Bridgeport Police Department.
Outcome: Guilty
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