A neighborhood lady who’s on President Biden’s clemency record was sentenced to federal jail for taking part in a large-scale fentanyl trafficking conspiracy.
Lawrence lady Luz Perez DeMartinez — federal jail #15968-049 — is among the 1,499 individuals whose federal sentences had been commuted by Biden on Thursday.
DeMartinez, 32, was sentenced 5 years in the past to 11 years in federal jail for taking part in a large-scale fentanyl trafficking conspiracy. DeMartinez, who pleaded responsible, was additionally ordered to pay a $50,000 high-quality.
The feds in court docket had mentioned a drug trafficking group, led by Sergio Martinez, bought fentanyl to clients from varied New England states, together with New Hampshire.
DeMartinez, the spouse of the group’s chief, facilitated varied monetary points of the drug enterprise, the feds mentioned. Her main function was to gather, depend and course of tons of of hundreds of {dollars} in earnings generated by drug gross sales.
She additionally paid salaries to a few of the group’s workers, and picked up cash to put up bail for sure workers who had been arrested. She wired drug proceeds in another country.
“The Martinez drug trafficking organization facilitated the sale of large quantities of lethal fentanyl to residents of New Hampshire,” then-New Hampshire U.S. Lawyer Scott Murray mentioned in the course of the sentencing in 2019. “This was a large-scale criminal enterprise that reaped hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits and caused untold misery to its customers and their families. These sentences should serve as warning that long federal prison terms await those who choose to distribute fentanyl in New Hampshire.”
The case was a collaborative investigation that concerned a number of businesses, together with the: DEA; Massachusetts State Police; Massachusetts AG’s Workplace; Essex DA’s Workplace; Haverhill Police; Methuen Police; Lowell Police; and plenty of extra.
Revere man Manuele Scata is one other native on Biden’s clemency record. He was sentenced to greater than eight years in federal jail for trafficking oxycodone after brokers discovered almost 2,000 oxy tablets, a loaded gun and a machete in his automobile.
Biden on Thursday commuted the sentences of almost 1,500 people who find themselves “serving long prison sentences – many of whom would receive lower sentences if charged under today’s laws, policies, and practices,” the president mentioned in a press release.
“These commutation recipients, who were placed on home confinement during the COVID pandemic, have successfully reintegrated into their families and communities and have shown that they deserve a second chance,” Biden added.
The outgoing president additionally pardoned 39 individuals who have “shown successful rehabilitation and have shown commitment to making their communities stronger and safer.”
