Pennsylvania Man Gets 10 Years for Conspiring to Distribute Cocaine, Fentanyl Pills and Meth

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ERIE, PA — A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, announced United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung.

United States District Judge Susan Paradise Baxter imposed the sentence Wednesday, February 1, 2023, on Vincent Andrew Feliciano, 32.

According to information presented to the court, Feliciano and others engaged in a conspiracy to distribute multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine, approximately 1.7 kilograms of blue fentanyl pills (an estimated 15,000 pills), and methamphetamine within the Western District of Pennsylvania from in and around February 2022 and continuing thereafter to in or around May 2022. During this time, Vincent Feliciano traveled from Pennsylvania to Arizona to facilitate his criminal enterprise involving the distribution of illegal narcotics in Pennsylvania including four hundred grams or more of fentanyl.

Assistant United States Attorney Paul S. Sellers prosecuted this case on behalf of the government. Assistant United States Attorney Sellers highlighted the dramatic rise, in recent years, of the trafficking of blue fentanyl pills, the increased potency and lethality of these pills, and the high profit margins enjoyed by drug distributors on the sale of fentanyl.

United States Attorney Chung commended the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Erie Area Gang Law Enforcement (EAGLE), Safe Streets Task Force, which is comprised of investigators from the FBI, the Erie Police Department, the Pennsylvania State Police, the Oil City Police Department, the Titusville Police Department, the Franklin Police Department, and the United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General, in coordination with the United States Postal Inspection Service, the Internal Revenue Service, the Erie County Detectives, and the Millcreek Police Department for the investigation leading to the successful prosecution of Feliciano.

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