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Posted on According to his guilty plea, from 2005 to 2006 Barba supplied cocaine hydrochloride to another individual who smuggled the cocaine back to St. Mary’s County, Maryland for further distribution. Barba was responsible for the distribution of between 3.5 and five kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride. Twelve other defendants have pleaded guilty to their involvement in the drug distribution network, including Edwin Elton Johnson, age 33, of Lexington Park, Maryland who was sentenced to 86 months, and Paul Bibeau, age 54, of Ridge, Maryland who was sentenced to 46 months. United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein thanked the Drug Enforcement Administration, St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office and the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigations for their investigative work in this Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force case, and commended Assistant United States Attorneys Barbara S. Skalla and James A. Crowell, who prosecuted the case. Source: United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein |