Drug trafficking ring operated like a business, first of six sentenced this week

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — This week, the first of six people involved in a drug trafficking ring inside the Parkside Commons apartment building in Syracuse was sentenced. The trafficking ring operated like a business; there were managers, employees, shift changes, and more.

Victor Medina Parilla, 33, was charged with enterprise corruption. He pled guilty. Enterprise corruption involves people operating a pattern of crime within an organization (a criminal enterprise) for profit.

They were working as a business. They were distributing what is in essence poison on the street. Fentanyl, heroin, things like that…

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