A St. Cloud man will spend the next 15 years behind bars for conspiring with multiple others to distribute dozens of kilograms of cocaine in Central Florida.
On Monday, March 20, 46-year-old James Mirabal was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine by U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr.
Mirabal must also forfeit $124,598 that is traceable to the proceeds of the offense. Mirabal pled guilty on December 27, 2022.
According to court records, Mirabal conspired with other individuals to distribute multiple kilograms of cocaine, including a seizure of 50 kilograms of cocaine in April 2022. Mirabal also arranged for the delivery of 20 kilograms to one of his co-conspirators, Johnathan Beharry.
That shipment was later seized during Beharry’s arrest on October 17, 2022. Beharry was sentenced to nine years in federal prison last month.
According to authorities, Mirabal routinely discarded cellphones and, when he was arrested in October 2022, was found in possession of 24 cellphones and $124,598 in currency.
Over a dozen individuals were arrested in connection with the drug distribution network, which authorities targeted through “Operation Titan Fall.” Those individuals have all been charged with a slew of felonies. One of those individuals, Vilnarie Figueroa Matos, is scheduled to be sentenced on April 17, 2023.