NEWARK – A Bergen County man has been sentenced to 84 months in prison for being involved in a plan to transport more than 20 kilograms of cocaine from California to New Jersey.
According to documents and statements made in court, Irving Olivero-Pena, 48, a/k/a “Fausto Molina,” of Edgewater alongside his co-defendants Melvin Feliz, 54, of Englewood Cliffs and Robert Crawford, 45, of Long Island City, New York all pleaded guilty to their roles.
All three admitted to conspiring to purchase narcotics for distribution in New Jersey from January 2011 through March 2014.
On October 22 2012, the three suspects met a courier in Bergen County and gave the courier $549,950 to transport to California via tractor trailer. That money would be used to purchase approximately 20 kilograms of cocaine. Afterwards, the courier would transport the cocaine to New Jersey for distribution. The courier would then return to New Jersey to distribute the cocaine. The currency was seized by law enforcement officers in California.
Olivero-Pena pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine.
Along with his prison term of 84 months, Olivero-Pena was sentenced to five years of supervised release.
On November 6, Feliz was sentenced to 14 years in prison and in July 2015 Crawford was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
