The second man indicted federally following a 2020 traffic stop in Halifax County was sentenced to 150 months in prison, according to court records and a spokesman for the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
The results of the hearing Friday were not immediately posted to the court’s online repository but Wednesday the spokesman for the attorney’s office confirmed that Bryan Walter Riccaldo received the sentence.
This morning further online records concerning the sentencing in Raleigh were available.
District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced Riccaldo to 150 months on counts one and two of the indictment with the sentences to run concurrently.
He must also serve five years of supervised release at the end of his sentence and pay a $200 special assessment.
Riccaldo and Yacine Rahmani, who was sentenced to 30 months in May, were tied to Rocky Mount gang leader Tyrone “Ty Nitty” Foreman. The leader of the G-Shine Bloods gang, Foreman in March received a 360-month sentence for 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.
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.
