BOSTON — A 38-year-old man was sentenced in federal court to 29 months in prison Friday for his role in a drug-distribution conspiracy that stretched from New York to Lynn, the U.S. Attorney’s office said.
Wilkin Cedano, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was also sentenced to three years of supervised release. He had pleaded guilty on Dec. 13, 2021 to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, 40 grams or more of fentanyl, and cocaine, prosecutors said.
Cedano admitted to conspiring with others to travel from New York to Massachusetts, in November and December of 2019, to sell fentanyl and 1,000 pills containing controlled substances to an individual who, unbeknownst to Cedano, was working with investigators, prosecutors said.
On Dec. 2, 2019, Cedano drove from New York to a grocery store in Lynn, and presented this person with two potato-shaped packages of heroin wrapped in cellophane and two pill bottles of 938 pills containing fentanyl or a mixture of heroin and fentanyl, prosecutors said.
Cedano was subsequently arrested. Investigators found additional drugs tucked beneath the steering column of his car, prosecutors said.