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Date: 03-25-2024
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Case Number: 22-cr-20556
Judge: Roy K. Altman
Court: The United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (Miami-Dade County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: The United States Attorney’s Office in Miami
Defendant's Attorney: Leonard Paul Fenn for Jamar Brandon Nattiel
Arturo V. Hernandez for Lisa Ann Flood
Alfredo A. Izaguirre for Palacio Valdes Farley
Albert Zachary Levin for Joassaint Josiah Aristil, Jr.
Daniel Lawrence Rashbaum for Karen Xiomara Williams
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Four men sentenced for conspiracy to rob drug-traffickers
On March 22, four defendants were sentenced to federal prison following their convictions for conspiracy to rob drug-traffickers of their narcotics, money, and other property.
Three of the defendants, Palacio Valdes Farley, aka BoBo, 43, Joassaint Josiah Aristil Jr., aka JoJo, 28, Jamar Brandon Nattiel, aka Debo and D-Boy, 47, were convicted by a jury in December 2023; the fourth defendant, Andrew Francois Martin, 31, pleaded guilty in November 2023.
U.S. District Judge Roy K. Altman sentenced Farley, the leader of the conspiracy, to 240 months (20 years) in prison which will run consecutively to a 169-month (14 years) federal prison sentence for conspiracies to commit drug-trafficking and money laundering offenses that he is currently serving.
Aristil was sentenced to 200 months (more than 16 years) in prison, to run consecutively to a 121-month (10 years) federal prison term for carjacking and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence that he is currently serving.
The court sentenced Nattiel to 188 months (more than 15 years) in prison.
Martin was sentenced to 210 months (more than 17 years) in prison, to run consecutively to a 25-year Florida state prison sentence he is serving for an armed robbery that Martin and Farley committed in Daytona Beach, Florida, in April 2017.
From May 22, 2016, until Dec. 11, 2017, Farley conspired with his co-defendants to rob drug-traffickers in California. On May 24, 2016, Farley, Martin, and other unindicted co-conspirators, committed an armed home invasion robbery of two drug-traffickers, in Van Nuys, California, during which both victims were shot multiple times.
On Dec. 5, 2017, at Farley’s direction, Aristil, Nattiel, co-defendants Karen Williams and Lisa Flood, and other co-conspirators, committed an armed home invasion robbery of a drug-trafficker in Orange County, California. During the robbery, the drug-trafficker, and his wife, were restrained and held at gunpoint, while the robbers ransacked their house and stole narcotics, cash, and jewelry. Aristil, Nattiel, Williams, Flood, and another co-conspirator, then drove across the country to Miami Beach, Florida, where they delivered the stolen drugs to Farley, who was out on bond for state court charges and confined to his apartment on Collins Avenue.
U.S. Attorney Markenzy Lapointe for the Southern District of Florida, Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey B. Veltri of FBI, Miami Field Office, and Sheriff Gregory Tony of the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO) announced the sentences.
FBI, Miami Field Office and BSO investigated this case with assistance from the Lauderhill Police Department, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the Daytona Beach Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Dwayne E. Williams and Elena Smukler prosecuted the case.
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