Third Ward narcotics dealer heads to prison

HOUSTON - A 46-year-old Houston resident has been sentenced for trafficking narcotics, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.

Demitrios Ramon Jerry pleaded guilty June 20.

U.S. District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal has now ordered Jerry to serve 108 months in federal prison to be immediately followed by five years of supervised release. At the hearing, the court considered the fact that Jerry admitted to dealing fentanyl and meth out of a drug house in Houston's Third Ward neighborhood. In handing down the sentence, the court noted the seriousness of the quantity of fentanyl.

A joint law enforcement operation revealed Jerry was selling narcotics from a drug house in Third Ward. Jerry sold counterfeit Percocet pills containing fentanyl and ecstasy pills containing meth.

During the operation, authorities searched the drug house and observed crack cocaine, powder cocaine, promethazine syrup and scales within the house.

Jerry was permitted to remain on bond and voluntarily surrender to a U.S. Bureau of Prisons facility to be determined in the near future.

The Drug Enforcement Administration conducted the investigation with the assistance of the Houston Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Stuart Tallichet prosecuted the case.