BROCKTON MAN SENTENCED FOR SELLING COCAINE FROM HOTEL IN ROCKLAND

Boston, MA... A Brockton man was sentenced today in federal court for conspiring to sell, and selling, crack cocaine.

United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan; Kenneth W. Kaiser, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New England; Brian Stewart, Chief of the Scituate Police Department; William Sullivan, Chief of the Marshfield Police Department; Paul Hayes, Chief of the Hanover Police Department; Robert Crowley, Chief of the Quincy Police Department; and Kevin Donovan, Chief of the Rockland Police Department, announced today that PEDRO LOBO, age 32, of 771 Warren Avenue, Brockton, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Reginald C. Lindsay to 12 years and 7 months in prison to be followed by 5 years of supervised release. On March 16, 2006, LOBO pleaded guilty to a seven-count Indictment charging him with one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Crack Cocaine, three counts of Distribution of Crack Cocaine, one count of Distribution of Cocaine, one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Crack Cocaine and one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Cocaine.

At the earlier plea hearing, the prosecutor told the Court that, had the case proceeded to trial, the evidence would have proven that from February, 2005 to April 28, 2005, LOBO conspired with others to distribute at least 50 grams of crack cocaine. LOBO also sold crack cocaine to an undercover officer on March 25, 2005, March 31, 2005 and April 8, 2005 and sold cocaine to the undercover officer on March 25, 2005. LOBO was also in possession of both cocaine and crack cocaine on April 28, 2005.

Each of the sales took place in LOBO’s hotel room at the Holiday Inn Express located at 909 Hingham Street in Rockland, Massachusetts. LOBO had been selling two to three kilograms of cocaine each month from the hotel for approximately a year. LOBO paid in excess of $34,000 to the hotel in room fees during that time.

The case was investigated by Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (“HIDTA”) Task Force in conjunction with the South Shore Drug Task Force. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Glenn A. MacKinlay in Sullivan’s Criminal Division.

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