Source: United States Department of Justice News
SCRANTON – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Marchese, age 30, of Swoyersville, Luzerne County, was sentenced on October 3, 2022, by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, to five years’ imprisonment on the charge of conspiracy to distribute more than fifty grams of methamphetamine.
According to United States Attorney Gerard M. Karam, Marchese previously entered a guilty plea and admitted to conspiring with other individuals to distribute methamphetamine in the Luzerne County area in 2020. The charge resulted from an investigation in May 2020 in which police obtained a search warrant for a residence in Swoyersville where Marchese was residing and seized crystal methamphetamine, a scale, drug packing materials, and $2245 in U.S. Currency.
The investigation was conducted by the Luzerne County Drug Task Force, the Kingston Police Department, the Swoyersville Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). Assistant United States Attorney Robert J. O’Hara prosecuted the case.
This case is also part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and gun violence, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everyone. On May 26, 2021, the Department launched a violent crime reduction strategy strengthening PSN based on these core principles: fostering trust and legitimacy in our communities, supporting community-based organizations that help prevent violence from occurring in the first place, setting focused and strategic enforcement priorities, and measuring the results.
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