BOSTON – A Massachusetts man was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for his role in a program to launder drug money ultimately destined for Colombia.
Revere’s Jairo Agudelo, 34, was also sentenced to three years’ release under custody on Wednesday, according to a statement by the US law firm in Boston. He pleaded guilty in December of a money laundering conspiracy, substantial money laundering and possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
Investigators confiscated about $ 200,000 in cash from Agudelo in 2019 when he was attempting to launder drug proceeds, prosecutors said. Investigators who executed a search warrant in an apartment used by Agudelo to hide his cocaine distribution found about 400 grams of cocaine and drug packaging materials and over $ 11,000 in cash, according to prosecutors.
Agudelo was arrested as part of Operation Týr, which is “disrupting and dismantling the highest level criminal organizations threatening the United States,” prosecutors said.
The Associated Press
