NEWARK, NJ—A federal grand jury today returned an Indictment against two Florida men who allegedly conspired to traffic in pharmaceutical drugs from a shipment, worth $8.8 million, stolen at a Georgia truck stop and driven to New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
Amed Rey Parra, a/k/a “Flaco,” a/k/a “Pecadien,” 36; and Abimael Fuente, a/k/a “Abimael Fuentes Barrios,” a/k/a “Abimael Fuentes,” 31, both of Hialeah, Fla., were previously arrested on a Complaint charging them with conspiracy to receive and sell stolen goods. The two-count Indictment charges the conspiracy and adds a substantive count of the receipt and attempted sale of stolen goods.
According to the Indictment and other documents filed in this case:
Parra, Fuente and their co-conspirators trafficked in stolen pharmaceutical drugs from July 2009 through October 2009. In October 2009, Parra and his co-conspirators, Luis Andres Faife-Ruiz, Cesar Pereira, and David Topaz, negotiated the sale of a sanofi-aventis shipment stolen from a Georgia truck stop on July 9, 2009, to a buyer in New Jersey. The stolen shipment was driven from Florida to New Jersey on October 14, 2009, by Fuente and another coconspirator who then met with Parra and Faife-Ruiz at a rest stop on the New Jersey Turnpike. Fuente then followed Faife-Ruiz’ car, and later that afternoon, a co-conspirator turned the stolen shipment over to the buyer for inspection. The FBI seized the stolen shipment before Parra, Fuente and their co-conspirators could complete the sale of the stolen pharmaceuticals, which included Xyzal, Nasacort AQ, Benzaclin Gel, and Lovenox.
The shipment of drugs had an estimated wholesale value of $8.8 million.
The conspiracy charge carries a maximum potential penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000. The receipt and attempted sale of stolen property count carries a maximum potential penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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