CNY woman sentenced to federal prison for drug and firearm offenses

A 30-year-old woman from Syracuse has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for her role in a drug trafficking conspiracy and for possessing firearms with defaced serial numbers.

Alexis Miranda was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court for conspiring to distribute heroin, methamphetamine, and fentanyl, and for possessing four semiautomatic pistols with removed serial numbers, according to an announcement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York.

Between August and October 2019, Miranda worked with co-defendant Christopher Montano to distribute illicit drugs in central New York. On one occasion, she traveled from the Rome area to meet Montano and helped distribute more than 80 grams of methamphetamine…

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