Massachusetts Man Sentenced for February 2024 Saco Drive-By Shooting (DOJ)

PORTLAND, Maine: A New Bedford, Massachusetts man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Portland for discharging a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.

Chief U.S. District Judge Lance E. Walker sentenced Jason Johnson-Rivera (a/k/a "Ouda"), 20, to 10 years in prison to be followed by four years of supervised release. Johnson-Rivera pleaded guilty on January 23, 2026. Johnson-Rivera's codefendants, Joshua Estrada (aka "Mac"), 20, and Yancarlos Abrante (aka "Glizzy"), 22, pleaded guilty on September 25, 2025, and will be sentenced later this year.

According to court records, on February 9, 2024, Johnson-Rivera, Estrada and Abrante fired at least five rounds from a 9mm handgun into another vehicle as part of a dispute over drug territory. Shortly after they fired on their drug rivals and fled the scene, they drove their vehicle against traffic and through a red light, crashing into another passenger vehicle and a school bus, after which they fled the scene on foot. No one was seriously injured because of this incident. Court records reflect that Estrada, Abrante, and others had been trafficking cocaine in and around Saco and Biddeford since at least January 2024.

The Saco Police Department, FBI's Southern Maine Gang Task Force, U.S. Border Patrol, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigated the case with assistance from the New Bedford (Mass.) Police Department.

Project Safe Neighborhoods: This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and gun violence, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everyone. On May 26, 2021, the Department launched a violent crime reduction strategy strengthening PSN based on these core principles: fostering trust and legitimacy in our communities, supporting community-based organizations that help prevent violence from occurring in the first place, setting focused and strategic enforcement priorities, and measuring the results. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, visit https://www.justice.gov/usao-me/psn.

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