United States v. Peralta

DAVID N. HURD, United States District Judge

I. INTRODUCTION

Acting on information from another drug investigation, an alphabet soup of state and federal law enforcement agencies spent the better part of the 2017 calendar year exploring whether defendant Abner Peralta ("Peralta" or "defendant") might be an additional conduit through which cocaine flowed into the Utica area.

In October of that year, Drug Enforcement Agency ("DEA") Special Agent Ryan Phelan ("Agent Phelan") swore out an affidavit detailing how this joint state-federal task force had used physical and electronic surveillance to…