在押犯人把牢房变成跨太平洋贩毒指挥中心：联邦陪审团裁定十项毒品罪名成立
美国司法部夏威夷区联邦检察官办公室宣布，加州 Delano 的 Kern Valley 州立监狱在押犯人 Anthony Bravo 已被联邦陪审团裁定十项毒品罪名成立。联邦检察官 Ken Sorenson 表示，现年53岁的 Bravo 在经过两周审理后，于10月16日被资深联邦地区法官 Leslie E. Kobayashi 主持的陪审团裁定一项共谋分销及持有并意图分销冰毒、芬太尼和卡芬太尼罪名，以及九项分销冰毒罪名成立；量刑定于2027年2月7日由 Kobayashi 法官作出。
庭审证据显示，Bravo 有长期的暴力犯罪与贩毒前科，是这个贩毒组织的头目与组织者。他把自己的牢房变成了全球指挥中心，指挥把数百磅冰毒以及数公斤致命的芬太尼和卡芬太尼跨越太平洋运进夏威夷群岛。司法部说明，卡芬太尼是一种用于麻醉大象等大型哺乳动物的镇静剂，药效约为芬太尼的100倍，而芬太尼在2毫克剂量就可能致命，具体取决于给药途径等因素。
Bravo 是三份起诉书中被控与这个跨太平洋贩毒网络有关的11名被告之一，其中10人已经认罪，只有 Bravo 一人选择受审。整个调查共查获150多磅冰毒、数公斤芬太尼和卡芬太尼、8支枪支、弹药以及超过15万美元现金。与 Bravo 同案及其他相关起诉的被告此前已被判刑，刑期从36个月到340个月不等，其中 Leonard Gutierrez 因共谋分销冰毒、芬太尼和卡芬太尼等罪名被判340个月监禁，Shawn Pauahi Santana 被判240个月，Francis Anthony Abergas, Jr. 被判210个月。
联邦检察官 Ken Sorenson 表示，这是一个成熟而大规模的贩毒组织，把数量惊人的危险毒品跨越全球运进夏威夷社区，这类行动助长成瘾、死亡、暴力与痛苦，检方将以联邦法律的全力追诉操纵者。联邦调查局（FBI）檀香山办公室代理主管特工 Ryan C. Noonan 表示，Bravo 的组织把数量惊人的致命毒品推进夏威夷群岛，这次定罪表明 FBI 与执法伙伴无论贩毒者是在街头活动还是躲在监狱墙后，都会追查到底。此案由 FBI 主导调查，Honolulu、Kauai 与 Maui 警察局、美国邮政检查局、缉毒局（DEA）以及烟酒火器和爆炸物管理局协助，由助理联邦检察官 Margaret C. Nammar 与 Adrienne Shergill 起诉。
Inmate Turned Prison Cell Into Trans-Pacific Drug Command Center: Federal Jury Convicts on Ten Drug Counts
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Hawaii announced that Anthony Bravo, an inmate at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano, California, has been convicted by a federal jury on ten drug counts. U.S. Attorney Ken Sorenson said Bravo, 53, was found guilty on October 16, following a two-week jury trial before Senior U.S. District Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi, of conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, fentanyl and carfentanil, and of nine counts of distributing methamphetamine. Sentencing is set for February 7, 2027, before Judge Kobayashi.
Evidence at trial showed that Bravo, an imprisoned felon with a lengthy history of violent crime and drug trafficking, was the leader and organizer of the drug trafficking organization and had transformed his prison cell into a global command center, orchestrating shipments of hundreds of pounds of methamphetamine and kilograms of deadly fentanyl and carfentanil across the Pacific and into the Hawaiian Islands. Carfentanil is used as a tranquilizing agent for elephants and other large mammals and is approximately 100 times more potent than fentanyl, which can be lethal at the 2-milligram range depending on the route of administration and other factors, the Justice Department said.
Bravo is one of eleven defendants charged in three separate indictments related to the trans-Pacific drug trafficking network. Ten of the defendants pleaded guilty; Bravo was the only one who proceeded to trial. The investigation yielded seizures of more than 150 pounds of methamphetamine, several kilograms of fentanyl and carfentanil, eight firearms, ammunition and over $150,000 in cash. Defendants in his and related indictments have already been sentenced to terms ranging from 36 months to 340 months, including Leonard Gutierrez, who received 340 months, Shawn Pauahi Santana, who received 240 months, and Francis Anthony Abergas, Jr., who received 210 months.
U.S. Attorney Ken Sorenson said this was a sophisticated and large-scale drug trafficking organization moving extraordinary quantities of dangerous drugs across the globe and into communities in Hawaii, fueling addiction, death, violence and misery, and that prosecutors would pursue those who run such operations with the full force of federal law. Ryan C. Noonan, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Honolulu office, said Bravo's organization pushed staggering amounts of deadly narcotics into the islands and that the conviction shows traffickers will be pursued whether they operate on the streets or from behind prison walls. The case was investigated by the FBI, with assistance from the Honolulu, Kauai and Maui Police Departments, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Margaret C. Nammar and Adrienne Shergill.
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