NEW YORK (AP) - A major drug trafficker will spend the rest of his life in prison after a jury convicted him in a pair of murder-for-hire conspiracies.
Prosecutors say Roger Key conspired in the September 2010 murder of a rival drug trafficker in the Bronx. He was also convicted Thursday of an attempted murder in Brooklyn in November 2011.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara says Key supplied powder and crack cocaine through a “sprawling drug trafficking network” in Manhattan and the Bronx.
The U.S. attorney’s office calls Key one of the most significant narcotics distributors in the city.
He faces two mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole plus an additional 30 years.
Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 19 in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
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