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0 9 - 0 9 - 2 0 0 5 Steroid seller sentended to three years
By Milton Gun BOSTON -- A California man, convicted of selling and using the Internet and U.S. mail to distribute steroids and ketamine to a Northborough customer who overdosed and survived near-death in 2001, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to three years imprisonment following completion of his current prison term for second-degree murder. Manuel Pacheco, 42, of San Fernando Valley, Calif., was convicted in 2003 of six counts of conspiring to distribute the controlled substances that resulted in his Northborough clients' near-death. According to the indictment, returned in October 2002 in Boston, a family member found the Northborough victim barely responsive to any stimulation and returned to consciousness only after two days in a local hospital. At the scene of the overdose, officials recovered empty vials of ketamine, hypodermic syringes and an empty Priority Mail envelope with Pacheco's return address. Subsequent investigation by California postal inspectors resulted in the interception of mail addressed to Pacheco containing money orders, checks and orders for steroids. Inspectors obtained an October 2002 warrant for a package and recovered five vials of injectable steroids and 100 tablets of steroids. Pacheco was subsequently indicted in New York after being traced to a homicide by overdose committed in 1984 and is serving the manslaughter conviction in the Nassau County Correctional Facility. 1 8 - 0 8 - 2 0 0 5 Internet Drug Trafficker Sentenced to Three Years, Reports U.S. Attorney
PRNewswire BOSTON -- A California man was sentenced yesterday in federal court for distributing ketamine and anabolic steroids over the Internet and via the U.S. Mail. United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan and Peter Zegarac, Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in New England, announced that MANUEL PACHECO, age 37, of 19400 Cohasset Street, Reseda, California, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton to 3 years' imprisonment, to be followed by 2 years of supervised release. On April 8, 2005, PACHECO pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute ketamine and anabolic steroids. At the earlier plea hearing, the prosecutor told the Court that, had the case proceeded to trial, the evidence would have proven that while in California PACHECO opened a ziplip Internet account over which he advertised ketamine and steroids for sale. PACHECO used the Internet name "the Doc," and "Roiddoc," and distributed drugs illegally throughout the United States using the U.S. Mail. His illegal operation came to the attention of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in 2001, when a Worcester County man nearly died from an overdose of ketamine and other drugs. The ketamine was traced back to PACHECO. Further investigation resulted in the seizure of thousands of dollars in steroids and other items used in PACHECO's illegal Internet drug business from his California home. PACHECO employed several others in his illegal business. In sentencing PACHECO, Judge Gorton upwardly departed from a guideline sentencing range between 18 to 24 months to the sentence he imposed of 3 years because the evidence showed that PACHECO supplied ketamine which contributed to the 2001 overdose. Judge Gorton also ruled that the three-year sentence he imposed would run consecutively to a nine-year to life sentence PACHECO is now serving for Murder. PACHECO had been convicted after a jury trial in New York in 2004 of the 1984 killing an 11 year-old girl, when PACHECO was 15. The case was investigated by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service's Narcotics Teams in Boston and Los Angeles, with assistance from the Northborough, Massachusetts Police Department, the Central Massachusetts High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force, the Nassau County, New York Police Homicide Squad, and the Los Angeles Police Department. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney David Hennessy in Sullivan's Worcester Office. CALIFORNIA MAN INDICTED FOR USING THE INTERNET AND US MAIL TO ILLEGALLY SELL CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES October 31, 2002 Worcester, MA - A California man was arraigned today in federal court for allegedly operating an Internet/Mail Order enterprise which illegally distributed thousands of dollars worth pharmaceutical controlled substances, the majority of which were Ketamine and anabolic steroids, throughout the United States. It is alleged that a Northborough, Massachusetts resident overdosed on Ketamine purchased from the defendant. United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan; Kenneth R. Jones, Postal Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in New England; and Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement in New England, announced today the arraignment of MANUEL L. PACHECO, age 33, formerly of Reseda, California on a six-count felony indictment charging him with conspiring to distribute steroids and Ketamine, a veterinary tranquilizer commonly abused by individuals who frequent "rave clubs", and related violations. "This indictment should send a clear message to those who seek to conceal their drug dealing activity by using the internet," said U.S. Attorney Sullivan. "Whether on a street corner or in cyberspace, local, state and federal law enforcement is watching. We will find you and prosecute you." According to papers filed in Court, PACHECO set up an Internet website using a clandestine "Ziplip" account, over which he advertised the sale of anabolic steroids, Ketamine, and assorted prescription drugs purchased in Mexico and smuggled into the United States. Customers from across the U.S. placed orders on-line with PACHECO, who used the Internet alias "The Doc", and paid for the drugs in advance by mailing cash and U.S. Postal Money Orders to PACHECO at addresses and commercial mail receiving agency accounts he controlled. It is alleged that PACHECO's business extended to Massachusetts, where, according to papers, a Northborough man who purchased Ketamine from PACHECO, overdosed on the drug and slipped into a coma. The man was hospitalized in Worcester for several days before he was revived. "The anonymity of the Internet is not going to protect the distributors of these predatory drugs," said DEA Special Agent in Charge Trouville. "Traffickers should be on notice that cyberspace will not provide a safe haven from arrest." The papers also indicated that in a single day in October 2001, Postal Inspectors in California seized 40 packages that PACHECO's organization had mailed to customers. All of the parcels contained steroids with a combined "retail" value of over $9,000, destined for PACHECO's various customers. "For over 200 years, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service has been enforcing laws that protect U.S. Postal Service employees and customers," said Inspector in Charge Kenneth Jones. "We continue to focus substantial efforts on dangerous narcotics. Today's arraignment should be a clear message to anyone who would use the U.S. Mail to commit crimes." If convicted, PACHECO faces up to 5 years in prison, to be followed by 2 years of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine on the conspiracy and each of the two drug distribution counts in the indictment. PACHECO faces a maximum sentence of 4 years in prison, to be followed by 1 year of supervised release, and a $30,000 fine on each of the two counts charging him with use of the mails to commit a felony. The sixth count of the indictment seeks the forfeiture of a 2001 Plymouth Prowler, a diamond ring and a diamond tennis bracelet. Federal law allows for the forfeiture of any monies and property that are derived from criminal activity. PACHECO was arrested on March 20, 2002, in Los Angeles, California on a Nassau County, New York complaint charging him with a 1984 homicide. On May 5, 2002, PACHECO was indicted by Nassau County on the homicide charge and he was subsequently returned to New York State on June 7, 2002 on a Governor's warrant. Federal authorities, in connection with these federal charges, took custody of PACHECO on October 17, 2002 to be brought to Massachusetts for his arraignment today. Following his federal arraignment, PACHECO will be returned to the custody of officials in Nassau County, New York to first face the homicide charges there. The arrest was the product of a long-term investigation conducted by the US. Postal Inspection Service and Special Agents assigned to the Central Massachusetts Drug Enforcement Administration/High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force in Worcester, Massachusetts, with assistance from the Postal Inspection Service in California, the Los Angeles Police Department, the Massachusetts State Police, and Police Detectives from Nassau County, New York. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney David Hennessy in Sullivan's Worcester Office. The asset forfeiture portion of the case is being handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Shelbey Wright, Chief of Sullivan's Asset Forfeiture Unit. Los Angeles police arrest man wanted for 1984 slaying of 11-year-old Long Island girl
AP LOS ANGELES - A California man has been arrested in the 1984 slaying of an 11-year-old girl in New York. Manuel L. Pacheco, 33, was arrested March 20 for allegedly performing a lewd act on a child under age 14, Officer Jason Lee, a police spokesman, said Wednesday. The following day, investigators served an arrest warrant on Pacheco for the July 1984 murder of Angela Wong. Long Island authorities said the girl was drowned in a stream in Massapequa, a New York City suburb, during a sexual assault. The case had been pursued since 1997 by Nassau County detective Michael Kuhn, who said he found it very difficult to put down Wong's file once he had picked it up. “Once I looked at the case I became very interested in it,” he told the Daily News of New York. After years of tracking down potential witnesses, Kuhn and police zeroed in on Pacheco, who moved to Los Angeles in 1990 and is a personal trainer at a gym. New York authorities are currently seeking Pacheco's extradition, Lee said. Pacheco was jailed in Los Angeles without bail and an extradition hearing was scheduled for Wednesday. |
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