Two men arrested by the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office who court documents tie to a Rocky Mount drug dealer sentenced last month are scheduled for sentencing in Raleigh on May 8.
The men — Bryan Walter Riccaldo and Yacine Rahmani — are scheduled to appear before United States District Court Judge James C. Dever III.
Draft pre-sentencing reports for both men have been filed but are not available for public inspection.
Court documents tie the men to Tyrone “Ty Nitty” Foreman, a Rocky Mount leader of the G-Shine Bloods gang, a subset of the United Blood Nation gang, who was sentenced to 360 months in prison on March 31.
Foreman pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin, fentanyl, and marijuana, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
The two counts Rahmani and Riccaldo pleaded guilty to charge they knowingly and intentionally conspired to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin, marijuana, and fentanyl and in count two they aided and abetted one another to possess and distribute heroin and marijuana.
The amount attributable to Riccaldo is a kilogram or more of heroin, a quantity of marijuana, and 400 grams or more of fentanyl.
The amount attributable to Rahmani is 100 grams or more of heroin, a quantity of marijuana, and 400 grams or more of heroin.
There has been no action taken by the court on Rahmani’s motion to have his guilty pleas withdrawn.
Rahmani and Riccaldo were stopped in 2020 by the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office on a return trip to New York after reportedly supplying Foreman with heroin in Rocky Mount, according to a criminal complaint filed in Foreman’s case.
A subsequent search of the vehicle resulted in the seizure of 47 bricks of heroin and approximately 1 pound of marijuana. It is believed the drugs were being returned to New York because of an issue with the supply.
Thus far, according to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina, 17 defendants, including Foreman, have been convicted.
The investigation has also led to the seizure of 6,601 dosage units of a mixture containing fentanyl, 4,389 dosage units of heroin, and over 20 guns.
In total, Foreman was personally responsible for trafficking more than 14,000 doses of a fentanyl mixture, and more than 60,940 doses of heroin.
In addition to his sentencing, Foreman was ordered to make restitution in the amount of $220,211.27 to the federal government.
“Tyrone Foreman used threats and intimidation to run his criminal drug trafficking enterprise while his organization raked in over a quarter million dollars in COVID-19 unemployment fraud,” said United States Attorney Michael Easley. “Through this operation we seized at least 20 firearms, some in the hands of felons and purchased through straw buyers. Let this 30-year sentence be a warning. Armed drug traffickers pushing fentanyl in North Carolina will pay a heavy price. Operation Caught Cold is yet another example of what can be accomplished when local law enforcement agencies partner to deliver justice.”
