John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of
Connecticut, announced that JOSE DAVID SILVA PESTANO, 33, a citizen of Mexico,
was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 87
months of imprisonment for trafficking heroin.
According to court documents and statements made in court,
SILVA PESTANO and others conspired to traffic multi-kilogram quantities of
heroin from Mexico to the Bridgeport, Connecticut area. On multiple occasions between approximately
April 2015 and March 2017, SILVA PESTANO personally transported more than 30
kilograms of heroin into Connecticut.
On February 14, 2017, SILVA PESTANO was arrested in Nogales,
Arizona, after he crossed the border on a motorcycle carrying 11.94 kilograms
of heroin in a concealed compartment.
On March 16, 2017, a grand jury in Hartford returned an
indictment charging SILVA PESTANO and six other individuals with conspiracy to
distribute and to possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of
heroin, and related offenses. SILVA
PESTANO also was charged in the District of Arizona with possession with intent
to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin.
The Arizona case was transferred to the District of Connecticut for
further prosecution.
SILVA PESTANO has been detained since his arrest. On December 22, 2017, he pleaded guilty to
one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute
heroin, and one count of possession with intent to distribute heroin.
SILVA PESTANO will be deported to Mexico when he completes
his prison term.
This matter was investigated by the FBI’s Bridgeport Safe
Streets Task Force, DEA’s Bridgeport High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force,
and Bridgeport Police Department. The
case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Joseph Vizcarrondo and
Alina Reynolds.
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