Medford Cocaine Trafficker Gets Year In Prison

MEDFORD, MA — A Utah-based drug trafficker who used his mother's Medford home as part of his cocaine operation will spend a year in prison, the U.S. Attorney's office said.

Droel Jared Encarnacion, 28, of Salt Lake City, was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and possession with intent to distribute cocaine in October. A judge sentenced him Thursday to one year and one day in prison and three years of supervised release.

Authorities said on Sept. 17, 2018, Encarnacion shipped a package containing about 427 grams of cocaine from Utah to his mother's home in Medford. Encarnacion flew to Boston himself and met with Robin Manuel Suazo, a Lynn man with whom he had spoken several times about shipping cocaine and fentanyl from Utah to Boston, the USAO said.

Investigators picked up conversations between the two men over a wiretap. Agents stopped the pair as they drove toward Lynn and found the package of cocaine in the car, which showed Encarnacion as the sender, the USAO said.