Coast-to-Coast Cocaine Trafficker Sentenced to 275 Months in Prison

The court also ordered a forfeiture of more than $2.49 million, which the DOJ said was the gross proceeds of the individual’s cocaine business. 

The Department of Justice building in Washington on March 11, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

A man from New York who was engaged in a nationwide cocaine trafficking conspiracy was sentenced on May 29 to 275 months in prison, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a June 17 statement. [source]

Brahmananda Prasad, 65, from Queens, engaged in a “coast-to-coast cocaine-trafficking conspiracy” that involved regularly flying to California to meet with cocaine suppliers and purchasing several kilograms of the drugs, the DOJ said.