A 34-year-old Haverhill man with multiple prior felony convictions, including manslaughter, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday in federal court in Boston for possessing a loaded firearm and drugs intended for distribution.
Ramon Silvelo-Miles was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to 10 years in prison, to be followed by four years of supervised release. In February of 2024, Silvelo-Miles pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute cocaine and fentanyl and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
According to Acting U.S. Attorney Joshua S. Levy, Silvelo-Miles was stopped by police in the early morning hours of Sept. 20, 2021, for driving erratically on Route 24 in West Bridgewater. Field sobriety tests indicated Silvelo-Miles was too impaired to drive. During a subsequent search of his car more than 200 grams of cocaine and nine grams of fentanyl packaged in 51 small, clear plastic bags in a small backpack inside the glove compartment were found. Hidden inside a black sock with the drugs was a Raven Arms MP-25 .25 caliber pistol. The gun was loaded with one bullet in the chamber and five bullets in the magazine. Silvelo-Miles is prohibited from possessing a firearm due to multiple prior felony convictions including a 2014 conviction for manslaughter.