Man Sentenced To Prison For Dealing Heroin In Meriden: Feds

Meriden CT

15 July, 2021

8:35 AM

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MERIDEN, CT — A Mexican national living in the US was sentenced to four years in prison on heroin trafficking charges, according to Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut. Jesus Gomez, 58, pleaded guilty in January to one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin. According to prosecutors, in 2019, federal authorities learned that Gomez and Abisael Perez, of the Bronx, NY, were involved in dealing heroin in the Meriden area. Investigators made a controlled purchase of approximately 50 grams of heroin from Gomez and Perez in 2019. Investigators next arranged to purchase two kilograms of heroin from Gomez and Perez. Gomez, Perez, and Heriberto Borrero, of Meriden, later met at a construction site in Berlin. After they drove away from the site, Berlin Police stopped their car. Police found two packages containing a total of approximately two kilograms of heroin in a car Perez drove from the site. Gomez was encountered by immigration authorities in Connecticut in 2012 and in March 2014, he was removed to Mexico. He illegally reentered the US three months later and was removed to Mexico a second time, according to prosecutors. He again illegally returned to the US and was living in the country under an assumed identity at the time of his arrest. Gomez has been detained since his arrest Nov. 17, 2019. Perez and Borrero pleaded guilty. Perez was sentenced to 60 months of imprisonment in March, and Borrero was sentenced to three years of probation and 100 hours of community service in April.