Opinion ID: 547605
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Cocaine and Heroin Distribution.

Text: 30 The Scarpa Crew also engaged in sales of cocaine and heroin. At least some of the bulk purchases were made through a New Jersey connection and an individual named Eddie on Staten Island who provided the Scarpa Crew with kilograms of cocaine. 31 In the first series of sales, Granato and M. Parlagreco sold cocaine to Leon and to other customers. Leon was typically provided with cocaine at a cost of $900 per ounce, but was not required to make payment until he resold it to his own customers, including individuals known to him as Sal from Virginia, Sal from New Jersey and Big Nick. When an order for cocaine was provided by one of these customers, Leon would call M. Parlagreco and meet him or Granato at Granato's home on Staten Island to pick up the cocaine. 32 In a second series of transactions occurring at various times from January through March, 1987, Granato and Catanzano sold cocaine and heroin to a dealer named Anthony DeBiase. DeBiase would generally meet Granato or Catanzano at one of several restaurants in Brooklyn to pick up the narcotics, deliver it to a buyer at a different restaurant, and return to pay Granato and Catanzano. On six occasions, Granato and Catanzano sold quantities of up to one quarter of a kilogram of cocaine and an eighth of a kilogram of heroin to DeBiase, which he later unwittingly resold to undercover officers. 33 After the last narcotics sale on March 20, 1987, DeBiase, Granato and Catanzano were arrested as they drove away from the scene of the transaction. Granato and Catanzano were subsequently convicted on October 8, 1987, after a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, of a conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine between January and March, 1987, as well as of related distributions of cocaine and heroin. A corresponding conspiracy was charged as predicate act three of count one of the Indictment. 34