Massachusetts man sentenced to prison after distributing 14 kilos of cocaine throughout Eastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island

BOSTON – A Randolph man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a drug trafficking organization that shipped dozens of parcels containing kilograms of cocaine from Puerto Rico to various addresses throughout Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. 

According to the Massachusetts Department of Justice, 23-year-old Cristian Junior Alvarado Deleon was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to 10 years in prison and five years of supervised release. In January 2024, Alvarado Deleon pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine.

Alvarado Deleon received shipments of cocaine mailed from Puerto Rico to Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The cocaine inside these packages was typically hidden inside innocuous consumer goods, such as air fryers. Alvarado Deleon was also responsible for the return of bad batches of cocaine according to communications intercepted by a wiretap used in this investigation. In May 2021, during the execution of a search warrant at Alvarado Deleon’s apartment, he threw a firearm out of his bedroom window while his roommate threw $88,800 in cash from another window. Inside the apartment, three empty parcels that were used to ship cocaine from Puerto Rico to Massachusetts were recovered.

Acting United States Attorney Joshua S. Levy; Ketty Larco-Ward, Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s Boston Division; John E. Mawn Jr., Interim Colonel of the Massachusetts State Police; and Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox made the announcement today. Valuable assistance was provided by the Drug Enforcement Administration, New England Field Division and Homeland Security Investigations in Boston. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Philip C. Cheng and James E. Arnold of the Criminal Division prosecuted the case.