By: Kafi Rosenbaum
U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced that a federal jury convicted a Gloucester County, NJ, man for narcotics trafficking and firearms offenses today.
Officials say that Javier Osorio, 43, of Deptford, NJ, was convicted following a one-week trial before U.S. District Judge Brian R. Martinotti in Newark federal court.
According to documents in this case and the evidence at trial:
- Osorio conspired with others to distribute cocaine and over one kilogram of heroin, which was recovered from his apartment.
- Osorio was arrested while driving with his conspirators from New Jersey to Brooklyn to sell an additional quantity of heroin, which was recovered from the vehicle.
- In addition to the drugs recovered from his apartment, law enforcement also recovered a loaded stolen firearm from under Osorio’s mattress.
At sentencing, Osorio faces a maximum potential penalty of 20 years on each count of conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine and possession with the intent to distribute heroin is punishable by a maximum penalty of life in prison.
The count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, which must be served consecutively to any other prison term; the count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon carries a maximum potential penalty of 10 years in prison.
Each count also carries a potential $250,000 fine.
The final verdict is that Osorio was convicted of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin and cocaine, possession with the intent to distribute heroin, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.