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May 1, 2008

Deported drug dealer gets time for illegal re-entry

PROVIDENCE -- A previously deported convicted drug dealer was sentenced today to more than three years in federal prison for illegally re-entering the United States.

Domingo Enrique Lorenzo-Ferrera got 41 months in prison from U.S. District Court Judge Mary M. Lisi, who rejected Lorenzo-Ferrera’s assertion that he was a shoe salesman.

Lisi "took note" of evidence collected by federal agents that Lorenzo-Ferrera, 40, is a drug dealer, according to a news release issued by U.S. Attorney Robert Clark Corrente's office.

Prosecutor Peter F. Neronha, in a sentencing memorandum, disputed Lorenzo-Ferrera’s claim that he earned $100 a week selling shoes by providing evidence agents seized last August from an apartment Ferrera used on Linwood Avenue, Providence.

Agents found in the apartment $1,030 in cash, a trace amount of cocaine, marijuana, a digital scale, a sifter, a box of sandwich bags, a heat sealer, and two empty bottles of a material that traffickers use to cut the strength of cocaine, "all suggesting that Lorenzo-Ferrera was in the drug-trafficking trade," according to the prosecution.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 5:12 PM | Permalink

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