Drug trafficker gets more than 27 years in prison

A man from Moon has been sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for drug trafficking and money laundering while he was still on supervised release from a prior prison sentence for drug trafficking.

A news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Pittsburgh said District Judge Nicholas Ranjan imposed the sentence on Noah Landfried, 38.

Landfried’s prison sentence is a combination of 300 months for the drug trafficking and money laundering convictions and 30 months for the supervised release violation.

The release said Landfried was convicted in a jury trial in December 2021 for dealing cocaine, fentanyl and heroin.

Landfried was early released in 2017 from his prior federal prison sentence in Illinois for international marijuana trafficking.

“Following his release in 2017, he re-established a direct connection to a Mexican source of supply and received tractor- trailer shipments of kilograms of cocaine that were transported across the U. S./ Mexico border,” the release said. “Landfried supplemented his cocaine trafficking by distributing thousands of oxycodone pills and large quantities of fentanyl and heroin, in addition to the K2/synthetic cannabinoids he was surreptitiously trafficking into prisons.”

Last June, another federal court jury in Pittsburgh found Noah Landfried’s brother, Ross Landfried, guilty of conspiracy to distribute synthetic cannabinoids in the prison system between 2017 and 2019. He was also convicted of laundering drug proceeds.

The Landfried brothers were among 27 people indicted in 2019 on charges of dealing drugs across the region and inside U.S. prisons. The members smuggled drug-saturated paper into the prisons for inmates to smoke or chew.