Reduced Sentence for Federal Case for Importation of a Controlled Substance

Our client was arrested for receiving two shipments of approximately 10 kilograms each of Methylone (Molly) in the Southern District of Florida. Our client was also, at the same time, the target of a separate federal investigation involving similarly sized shipments of Molly into JFK Airport in the Eastern District of New York. Our client was facing a minimum of twenty years imprisonment. We first negotiated a waiver of our client's initial appearance in Miami to allow him to remain in a hotel with government agents and begin his cooperation. We then negotiated agreements with the Eastern District of New York and the Southern District of Florida that called for the transfer of the New York case to the Southern District of Florida for consolidation for sentencing purposes. We then began collecting case law from around the country and locally with respect to the appropriate guideline calculations to use for sentencing purposes. As part of this, our firm helped with the effort in this district to ensure uniform treatment of all Molly cases for sentencing using the lower calculation of 250:1 rather than 500:1. Our client was initially sentenced to a total of 55 months. Therefore, he remained on bond, until his sentencing. Rule 35 of the federal rules of the criminal procedure to 29 months imprisonment with a recommendation for the drug program.