PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A Cranston woman will spend the next three and a half years behind bars for using her professional reputation to launder hundreds of thousands of dollars tied to her ex-boyfriend’s fentanyl trafficking operation.
Carolina Correa, 35, pleaded guilty last summer to one count of money laundering conspiracy, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Massachusetts.
Her former boyfriend, Jasdrual “Josh” Perez, is currently serving a more than 22-year prison sentence for running one of the largest fentanyl drug rings in the region, which produced and distributed millions of fentanyl pills disguised as oxycodone and Percocet…