SiriusXM DJ Gets 8 Yrs. For Running Narcotics Ring: DA

MINEOLA, NY — A man, who worked as a disc jockey at SiriusXM, was sentenced to eight years in prison for operating as a major narcotics trafficker between California and Hempstead, Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly said.

Lance Holmes, also known as DJ Love Dinero, 42, of Queens, pleaded guilty on March 25, to operating as a major trafficker, first-degree attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance and fourth-degree conspiracy. Holmes was also given five years post-release supervision, prosecutors announced.

"Lance Holmes played a major role in moving multiple kilos of cocaine and fentanyl from the West Coast right into our Hempstead community, disguising his illicit activity by exploiting our mail system with the help of a postal carrier," Donnelly said. "Together with mail carrier Adrianna Lewis, Holmes mailed the drugs to the addresses of unsuspecting homeowners where Lewis then intercepted the packages and provided them to Holmes for a price"

Donnelly said that in March 2021 members of the FBI Long Island Gang Task Force and the ATF Long Island Firearms Task Force executed numerous arrest and search warrants related to "Operation Honeycomb." Forty defendants were indicted for allegedly selling narcotics in the Hempstead area, including nine charged as major traffickers, the D.A.'s office said.

As a result of the investigation, investigators determined that kilograms of cocaine and fentanyl originating in Southern California were being sent through the United States Postal Service to addresses in New York. The packages bound for Nassau County were sent to addresses along the route of Adrianna Lewis, a letter carrier for the USPS in Hempstead, Donnelly said.

Lewis, 33, from Rockville Centre, pleaded guilty in December, to second-degree criminal facilitation and was sentenced to five years’ probation on February 15.