MAN SENTENCED IN DRUG CASE

BUFFALO, N.Y.--Luis Torres, 47, of Buffalo, New York, who was convicted of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1), 860 and 846 on June 11, 2007, was sentenced to 70 months imprisonment by U.S. Chief Judge Richard J. Arcara, U.S. Attorney Terrance P. Flynn of the Western District of New York announced today.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas S. Duszkiewicz, who handled the sentencing, stated that the defendant had been convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and heroin within 1,000 feet of a public school where he sold quantities of drugs on Baynes Street on Buffalo’s west side near Public School #45, located on Hoyt Street, between September 2004 and March 2, 2005. The arrest occurred on March 2, 2005, after a car chase where the defendant crashed his vehicle into a pizza delivery vehicle and approximately ½ kilo of cocaine was seized.

The conviction was the culmination of an investigation on the part of Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Laurie Bennett.