Wilkes-Barre Man Sentenced To Prison For Fentanyl Trafficking
Friday, October 25, 2024, 11:45 A.M. ET. 1 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,
SCRANTON, PA.- On Wednesday, October 23, 2024, Kevin Jones, also known as “Hat,” 40, formerly of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, appeared in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to 180 months in federal prison for his June 2024, conviction for fentanyl trafficking.
According to U.S. Attorney Gerard M. Karam, following a four-day trial before U.S. District Judge Mannion in June 2024, Jones was found guilty by a federal jury of the charge of Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with Intent to Distribute More than 400 Grams of Fentanyl.
Jones Was One Of Fifteen Indicted
Jones was one of fifteen people who were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in February 2023 for conspiring to distribute fentanyl in Northeastern Pennsylvania and surrounding areas of the Commonwealth.
Jones, along with his co-conspirators, received counterfeit pills containing fentanyl through the U.S. Postal Service from co-conspirators in Arizona. Jones and his co-conspirators then redistributed the pills in Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, and other locations in Northeast Pennsylvania as well as other states.
At trial, Prosecutors presented testimony from six of Jones’s co-conspirators, federal agents, members of the Wilkes-Barre Police Department, and investigators from the U.S. Postal Service Inspection Service testified at trial as to Jones’s participation in the Fentanyl Trafficking Conspiracy that ultimately led to his conviction.
