Former Sirius XM DJ sentenced to 8 years in prison for drug trafficking

A former Sirius XM DJ was sentenced to 8 years in prison for his role in an elaborate drug trafficking scheme.

NBC New York reported that DJ Love Dinero, born Lance Holmes, was sentenced Tuesday evening (October 22). The former disc jockey pleaded guilty in March to possession of a controlled substance, conspiracy and acting as a major drug trafficker. moving the deadly drugs. Holmes did not work alone, however.

The DJ collaborated with Adrianna Lewis, an employee of the United States Postal Service. Prosecutors allege that the duo stole “kilos of cocaine and fentanyl in a drug ring that stretched from the West Coast to Long Island,” disguised by the image and use of the USPS mail carrier.

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Lewis received her sentence in December 2023, pleading guilty to “second-degree criminal facilitation, and was sentenced to five years of probation.”

During their joint venture, the pair met along Lewis’s USPS delivery route to exchange medications. Prosecutors even managed to film Holmes entering an apartment and leaving with a package of drugs that Lewis allegedly left for him.

Subsequently, the FBI and ATF issued arrest and search warrants for Holmes and Lewis in March 2021 after making several developments in the case. This breakthrough led to “more than forty indictments related to narcotics sales,” with an investigation revealing that cocaine and fentanyl were being transported through the United States Postal Service, beginning in Southern California.

Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly told the outlet about the plot, which detailed Holmes and Lewis’ elaborate machination.

“Along with postal worker Adrianna Lewis, Holmes sent the drugs to the addresses of unsuspecting homeowners, where Lewis then intercepted the packages and delivered them to Holmes for a price.”

Packages moving along the USPS delivery route were allegedly “intercepted” by law enforcement, with specially trained K9 units used to locate the packages containing the drug paraphernalia. In 2022, Holmes even contacted the post office to inquire about a package. He did not know that the package containing two kilos of cocaine was already in the possession of the authorities. As the investigation concluded, law enforcement authorities alleged “10 kilos of cocaine and a kilograms of fentanyl– an estimated $1 million in drugs.”

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