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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced yesterday that a former resident of the Bronx, New York, has been sentenced in federal court to 46 months in prison on his conviction of possessing with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. Thirty-five-year-old Jose Baez Cabrera was given that sentence, as well as three years of supervised release following his term in prison in the event he is not removed from the United States based on his immigration status. According to information presented to the Court, on August 16th, 2023, Baez Cabrera was caught transporting eight kilograms of cocaine across Pennsylvania with the intent to deliver them to drug dealers in Erie. At that time, he was on probation following a 2021 felony conviction in New York for possessing a kilogram of fentanyl.