A Dominican national formerly residing in Methuen was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Boston for federal drug conspiracy.
Jorge Luis Nunez Martinez, who used the name William Matos, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to seven and a quarter years in prison and three years of supervised release. Martinez is subject to deportation upon completion of his sentence. In December 2017, Martinez pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin, cocaine and crack.
In October 2015, a confidential source reported that an individual named Javier Gonzalez Marcano was operating a large-scale drug trafficking organization in and around Lawrence and Lowell. A police investigation found Martinez was a runner for the Gonzalez Marcano drug trafficking organization. Martinez assumed control over the drug trafficking organization a year later when Gonzalez Marcano returned to the Dominican Republic. Martinez and Juan Rodriguez Castro, another runner for the Gonzalez Marcano drug trafficking organization, were arrested in March 2017.
Last June, Rodriguez Castro pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin, cocaine, and crack and was sentenced in October to 28 months in prison. Gonzalez Marcano is still on the run, according to U.S. Attorney Andrew E. Lelling.