Man Convicted Of Running Meth Distribution Ring In Catawba And Burke Counties

Statesville: A man who was in prison in Georgia for incest was convicted Wednesday of coordinating a drug-running scheme from Atlanta to western North Carolina.

43-year old Alfonso Roman Brito was convicted of trafficking methamphetamine by a federal jury Wednesday after a three-day trial in Statesville, according to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice.

The charges came after the Department of Homeland Security, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Burke County Sheriff’s Office and the Catawba County Sheriff’s Office investigated a drug-trafficking organization operating in Burke and Catawba counties and the surrounding areas in 2019.

Evidence presented during the trial proved Brito, who Georgia state records showed was serving a 30-year prison sentence for a 2017 incest conviction, was coordinating shipments of multiple kilograms of methamphetamine from the Atlanta area into western North Carolina.

From 2019 to the fall of 2021, Brito orchestrated the delivery of more than 100 kilograms of methamphetamine from Georgia to North Carolina, the release said.

A date for sentencing has not been set.