CAMDEN, N.J. (1010 WINS) — A Philadelphia man admitted to trafficking over 100 kilograms of cocaine from Puerto Rico to southern New Jersey and Philadelphia by shipping the drugs through the postal service, prosecutors announced Thursday.
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The 43-year-old, Iran Soler, and his co-conspirators went to San Juan, Puerto Rico numerous times between March 2019 and August 2020 to buy multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine from wholesale drug suppliers, court documents show.
After buying the drugs, Soler and his crew shipped the cocaine by overnight delivery through the U.S. Postal Service to different addresses in Philadelphia and southern New Jersey. Another co-conspirator, Jose Gonzalez, would retrieve the shipped cocaine to sell to other drug dealers in the area, officials said.
Soler pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and faces a minimum of 10 years in federal prison and a maximum of a life sentence as well as maximum potential fine of $10 million.
He is scheduled for sentencing on Feb. 6, 2023. Gonzalez previously pleaded guilty to his role in the trafficking and is scheduled for sentencing Jan. 30, 2023.
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