The U.S. Attorney’s Office
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania released the below information:
PHILADELPHIA – Deputy
United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen announced that Matt “Mack” Jones, 37, of
Bensalem, PA, was sentenced to 240 months’ imprisonment and eight years’
supervised release by Senior United States District Court Judge R. Barclay Surrick.
Jones was convicted at trial in October 2019 on charges of distribution of
heroin and possession of firearms by a convicted felon.
In January 2018, the
Philadelphia Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New Jersey State
Police, and the Philadelphia Police Department began a joint investigation of
the defendant and other co-conspirators. Officers learned that the defendant
was a heroin supplier, and that he supplied two female associates with bags of
heroin and directed them to deliver the bags to customers in New Jersey and the
Philadelphia area.
Investigators
conducted several controlled buys of heroin from the defendant and his
co-conspirators with the assistance of a cooperating witness at the Cherry Hill
Mall in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and the Philadelphia Mills Mall (formerly
Franklin Mills Mall) in Philadelphia. Laboratory analysis of the seized
material confirmed the presence of heroin mixed with fentanyl. In July 2018,
officers searched the defendant’s home and found firearms, including a Colt .38
handgun and a 12 gauge shotgun, ammunition, half a kilogram of heroin, cocaine,
marijuana, drug packaging paraphernalia and more than $100,000 cash.
“Jones and other
members of this drug organization pumped huge quantities of deadly drugs into our
community for years,” said Deputy U.S. Attorney Lappen. “Drug trafficking
is a serious federal offense which will earn those convicted of it serious time
behind bars, as this sentence demonstrates. Our Office is determined to
investigate and convict these criminals to keep the streets of our communities
safer.”
The case was
investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Philadelphia Police
Department, the New Jersey State Police, the Bensalem Township Police, and the
Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, and is being prosecuted by Assistant
United States Attorney Christopher E. Parisi.
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