PITTSBURGH - A resident of Brownsville, Texas, has been sentenced in federal court to 210 months imprisonment and 5 years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics and money laundering laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
United States District Judge Arthur J. Schwab imposed the sentence on Dante Ivan Lozano, age 42, of Brownsville, Texas.
According to information presented to the court, between 2011 and 2015, Lozano mailed dozens of packages of cocaine to Jeffrey Turner and April Racan in Elizabeth and McKeesport, in Allegheny County. Approximately eight kilograms (about 18 pounds) of cocaine were sent in this fashion.
Turner and Racan then sold the cocaine to others. Although drug proceeds in the form of cash were generally sent back to Lozano in Texas, during just a six-month period of time in 2012, as an experiment, $116,700 in postal money orders were purchased and sent by Turner and Racan from Pittsburgh back to Texas.
Seven other co-defendants were previously convicted and sentenced, including Turner and Racan, and former U.S. Postmaster Joseph Borrelli.
Assistant United States Attorney Gregory J. Nescott prosecuted this case on behalf of the government.
Acting United States Attorney Song commended the United States Postal Service in Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General, and the Drug Enforcement Administration in Brownsville, Texas for the investigation leading to the successful prosecution of Dante Lozano.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
