ROCHESTER, Pa. — A Beaver County man has been sentenced to prison for charges related to a drug trafficking operation that stemmed from Puerto Rico.
Roberto Muniz Sanchez, 46, of Rochester, is accused of being involved in a drug trafficking group that was bringing cocaine into Western Pennsylvania through the U.S. Postal Service from Oct. 2023 through March 2024.
Sanchez is expected to spend 15 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
He is one of 17 people facing charges in the operation. The following defendants are: Daniel Feliciano, 47; Luciano Bratini Rivera, 36; Markus Hobel, 34; Dorothy Myers, 41; Glenn Samuels, 32; Kevin Tulla Torres, 28; Luis Rivera Otero, 37; and Franchely Shymko Vazquez, 31, all of New Castle; Jamie Klinesmith, 39; Amanda Kelosky, 37; Thomas James Myers, 45; and Lindsay Ostrom, 37, all of Ellwood City; Ruben Noel Sanchez, 28; and Rubel Sanchez, 21, both of Youngstown, Ohio; and Antonio Bernacett Rodriguez, 39; and Jean Sanchez Tulla, 37, both of Puerto Rico.
Rivera and Hobel were sentenced to prison in December.
The drugs were allegedly making their way into Lawrence County, one of six local counties designated as a High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area by the White House.
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