Heroin Dealer Found Guilty, Faces Deportation

CONCORD, NH - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that on Feb. 5, 2016, a jury found Lorenzo Ramirez, 58, of Rochester, guilty of three counts of unlawful distribution of heroin and one count of unlawful possession of with the intent to distribute heroin, after a four-day trial in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire.

The trial began on Feb. 2, and ended with the jury’s verdict yesterday, according to a press statement.

The guilty verdict means that the jury found that Ramirez made three sales of approximately 42 grams of heroin in Rochester in February and March 2015 to an undercover officer working with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration.

On March 4, 2015, after conducting a third sale to the undercover officer, Ramirez was arrested and found to be in possession of an additional ten grams of heroin, which was packaged for redistribution, and $750 in cash.

Ramirez’s sentencing before United States District Court Chief Judge Joseph N. LaPlante is scheduled for May 19, 2016. Ramirez, a citizen of Mexico will likely face deportation after he is sentenced, according to Rice.

The case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration and was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Jennifer Cole Davis and Seth Aframe.

Ramirez, according to press reports, claimed the DEA entrapped him after an introduction made by Mark Ross of Rochester, a man accused of giving Eve Tarmey fentanyl which killed her, according to NH1 News. Ross was a DEA informant between March 2014 and October 2015, according to the Lebanon Voice. Tarmey was killed on Oct. 17, 2015, in a shocking incident that made headlines around the state. The DEA ended its informant relationship with Ross a few days later, according to press reports. Charges against Jazzymn Rood, Tarmey’s mother, have been dropped in Strafford County and bumped up to the federal level, according to Fosters.com.