Andy Reanos-Moreno, 27, was sentenced to six years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a drug trafficking charge.
SAN FRANCISCO — A man who prosecutors contend led a large drug trafficking ring across the Bay Area, providing housing in Oakland for street-level dealers who operated in San Francisco, was sentenced last week to six years in federal prison.
Prosecutors contended that Reanos-Moreno became rich through the drug trade in his early 20s, using couriers to receive multi-pound shipments of drugs from other parts of California and using his connections to provide housing for his illegitimate employees. They say his name was on a lease in Oakland where several dime bag drug dealers lived, and he used it as a form of control, U.S. attorneys wrote in a sentencing memo.
Reanos-Moreno’s attorney argued that a decade behind bars would be out of sync with what other co-defendants have received for their guilty pleas in the case — three others have taken pleas and the highest sentence was three years in prison. Thea attorney, Christina DiEdoardo, also wrote there was no evidence Reanos-Moreno forced anyone into the drug trade.