{"id":44121,"date":"2019-08-07T16:42:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T20:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=44121"},"modified":"2019-08-07T16:42:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T20:42:24","slug":"lee-county-sheriffs-office-press-release-lcso-u-s-attorneys-office-hold-drug-dealer-responsible-for-overdose-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/08\/lee-county-sheriffs-office-press-release-lcso-u-s-attorneys-office-hold-drug-dealer-responsible-for-overdose-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Press Release: LCSO &#038; U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office hold drug dealer responsible for overdose deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Apicella.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44122\" width=\"282\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Apicella.jpg 480w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Apicella-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><figcaption> Gregory Thomas Apicella <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> A joint investigation between the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the United States Attorney\u2019s Office resulted in the federal conviction of drug dealer Gregory Thomas Apicella (DOB 4\/05\/1965).\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigation linked Apicella to two local Fentanyl-related overdose deaths.\u00a0 Apicella is a criminal registrant with a lengthy history of drug sales.\u00a0As per U.S. Code Title 21 \u00a7 841, drug dealers linked to \u201cdeath or serious bodily injury\u201d are subject to severe sentencing minimums.\u00a0 \u00a0Apicella was sentenced to a total of 292 months for two (2) counts of Distribution of a Controlled Substance (fentanyl) Resulting in Death, one (1) count of Distribution of a Controlled Substance (fentanyl and methamphetamine) and one (1) count of Possession with the Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance (fentanyl).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheriff Carmine Marceno was incredibly pleased when told of the outcome of the case.\u00a0 \u201cOur team worked hard, alongside the U.S. Attorney, to take this career-drug-dealer off the streets of Lee County.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t be more proud of my team\u201d stated Sheriff Carmine Marceno.\u00a0 \u201cMy message to drug dealers selling poison in our community is this \u2026you will be caught, and you will be arrested, and we have a jail cell waiting for you.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A joint investigation between the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the United States Attorney\u2019s Office resulted in the federal conviction of drug dealer Gregory Thomas Apicella (DOB 4\/05\/1965).\u00a0 \u00a0 The&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":44122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}