GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan says a Holland man has pleaded guilty possessing more than 5 kilograms of cocaine, with intent to distribute.
Mark Totten says 27-year-old Jason Duenas faces a mandatory minimum sentence of at least 10 years in prison when he is sentenced.
“Drug dealing at kilogram scale doesn’t just ruin lives, it ruins communities,” Totten said in a news release. “Apart from the harm caused to drug users and their loved ones, trafficking at this level fuels deadly gun violence that can subject entire neighborhoods to a climate of fear and reprisal. My office remains committed to holding dealers fully accountable for their willingness to trample communities in pursuit of profit.”
Totten says the written plea agreements indicates Duenas kept approximately 19 kilograms of cocaine inside a home during the summer of 2022. Most of the cocaine was packaged into “bricks” that were stored in and around a laundry room to which Duenas had access. Duenas planned to sell the drugs to others for personal profit.
Duenas’s arrest was the culmination of an interagency investigation led by the West Michigan Enforcement Team, the Holland Police Department, and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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