第九名被告认罪：Boston帮派H-Block成员Heckstall认罪，毒纸单张在监狱估值最高8万美元、2027年1月量刑
位于美国马萨诸塞州Suffolk County的Boston市Roxbury社区男子 Robert Heckstall（43岁，别名 Ribbs、Buck、Buck Corleone）已在波士顿的联邦法院认罪。他是当地暴力帮派 H-Block 的长期成员，承认的罪名包括共谋分发及持有意图分发 PCP 与合成大麻素 MDMB-4en-PINACA、ADB-4en-PINACA，重罪犯持有枪支弹药，以及持有意图分发可卡因。
联邦地区法官 Indira Talwani 已排定2027年1月26日量刑。Heckstall 是此案第9名认罪的被告；全案共10名 H-Block 成员及关联人员于2024年8月被起诉，源于2021年起针对该帮派贩毒、枪击与暴力上升的多年调查，调查期间共查获逾500克可卡因、可卡因碱与芬太尼，以及逾2万剂浸毒纸片。
起诉文件称，H-Block 是 Boston 最令人畏惧、影响遍及全市的街头帮派之一，其前身是1980年代在 Roxbury 成立的 Humboldt Raiders，2000年代以 H-Block 之名再起，成员有与执法人员暴力冲突的历史，包括2015年一名成员近距离无预警枪击一名 Boston 警察。
Heckstall 是三名被控共谋向马萨诸塞州监狱走私毒品的成员之一。检方称，州惩教系统内合成大麻素（俗称 K2）等危险物质的走私大幅增加，常见手法是利用在押人员邮件政策：把纸张浸泡或喷洒液态毒品、晾干后印上伪造的法律信函，再装进标为法律邮件的信封寄入监狱，单张这样的毒纸在监狱内估值最高可达8万美元。被截获的监狱通话显示，Heckstall 与同伙合谋把合成毒品送入监所；他被捕时，调查人员在其住所发现3支枪支与逾60克可卡因。
量刑方面：共谋分发与持有意图分发 PCP、合成大麻素及持有意图分发可卡因，最高可判20年监禁、至少3年至终身的监督释放与最高100万美元罚金；重罪犯持枪罪最高可判15年监禁、3年监督释放与最高25万美元罚金。实际刑期由法官依联邦量刑指南与相关法律裁定。
此案由马萨诸塞州联邦检察官 Leah B. Foley、美国缉毒局（DEA）新英格兰地区主管特工 Jarod A. Forget、美国特勤局波士顿外勤办公室主管特工 Mark Comorosky、联邦调查局（FBI）波士顿分局主管特工 Ted E. Docks、美国劳工部督察长办公室主管特工 Kelly M. Lawson 与 Boston 警察局长 Michael Cox 共同宣布，案件由联邦助理检察官 John T. Dawley 检控。起诉文件中的指控对尚未定罪的其余被告仍属指控，彼等在被法庭证明有罪前推定无罪。
Ninth Defendant Pleads Guilty: Boston H-Block Gang Member Robert Heckstall Admits Drug Conspiracy, Sentencing Set for January 26, 2027
Robert Heckstall, 43, of Roxbury in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, also known as Ribbs, Buck and Buck Corleone, has pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston. A longtime member of the violent Boston-based H-Block gang, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute PCP and the synthetic cannabinoids MDMB-4en-PINACA and ADB-4en-PINACA, being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, and possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani scheduled sentencing for January 26, 2027. Heckstall is the ninth defendant to plead guilty in the case. He was one of 10 H-Block members and associates charged in August 2024 following a multi-year investigation begun in 2021 into gang-related drug trafficking, shootings and violence, during which investigators seized over 500 grams of cocaine, cocaine base and fentanyl, and over 20,000 doses of drug-laced paper.
According to the charging documents, H-Block is one of the most feared and influential city-wide gangs in Boston. Originally formed in the 1980s as the Humboldt Raiders in the Roxbury section of Boston, it re-emerged in the 2000s as H-Block, and its members have a history of violent confrontation with law enforcement, including a 2015 incident in which a member shot a Boston police officer at point blank range without warning.
Heckstall was one of three members and associates charged with conspiring to smuggle illegal drugs into a Massachusetts prison. Prosecutors say sheets of paper saturated with liquid narcotics are dried, printed with fake legal correspondence and mailed to inmates in envelopes marked as legal mail; a single sheet can be worth as much as $80,000 inside the prison. Intercepted jail calls showed Heckstall conspiring to introduce synthetic drugs into the facilities, and when he was arrested investigators found three firearms and over 60 grams of cocaine in his apartment.
The drug conspiracy and cocaine charges carry up to 20 years in prison, at least three years and up to a lifetime of supervised release and a fine of up to $1 million. The felon-in-possession charge carries up to 15 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000. Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based on the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and governing statutes.
The case was announced by United States Attorney Leah B. Foley; Jarod A. Forget of the Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Field Division; Mark Comorosky of the U.S. Secret Service Boston Field Office; Ted E. Docks of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Division; Kelly M. Lawson of the Department of Labor Office of Inspector General; and Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox. Assistant U.S. Attorney John T. Dawley is prosecuting the case. The details in the charging documents are allegations, and the remaining defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
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