A Brooklyn drug dealer known as “Mr. Pickles” avoided 12 year prison sentence by testifying against several co-conspirators.
12 year prison sentence dodges by NYC Drug Dealer ‘Mr. Pickles’ (Photo: Narconon)
Christopher Kelly, the owner of a nail shop in Brooklyn’s Mill Basin, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine in May 2022. Under federal sentence guidelines, he risked up to 10 to 12 year prison sentence.
According to the Times Union, Kelly was only sentenced to three years and five months in prison because of his testimony in the case against three accused co-conspirators: Richard Sinde, a Bonanno crime family associate from New Jersey, Schenectady businessman Jeffrey Civitello Sr., owner of Focus Construction, his son, Jeffrey Civitello Jr.
Sinde and the Civitellos were found guilty on all counts of conspiring to transport $600,000 in cocaine between New York City and Schenectady. They have yet to be sentenced.
While Kelly’s punishment was low, District Judge Mae D’Agostino was harsh in her judgment of his character.
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When Kelly, who avoided 12 year prison sentence, was charged by the federal in 2021, he had already been convicted in state court for an unrelated Big Apple drug case arising from a 2018 bust.
In the recent published article by New York Post, as per to New York City Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan, Kelly who avoided 12 year prison sentence and two other individuals, one of them was a MTA bus driver, made a $74,000 cocaine deal outside Kelly’s nail salon business.
Kelly, the NYC drug dealer nicknamed ‘Mr. Pickles’, who avoided 12 year prison sentence was released in July this year, just to be imprisoned by the feds because of his trial and evidence in the drug conspiracy case against the Civitellos and Sinde.
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