Former Sirius XM DJ Sentenced To 8 Years In Prison For Drug Trafficking

A former Sirius XM DJ was sentenced to 8 years in prison for his role in an elaborate drug trafficking scheme.

NBC New York reported that DJ Love Dinero, né Lance Holmes, was sentenced on Tuesday night (Oct. 22). The former disc jockey pleaded guilty in March to possession of a controlled substance, conspiracy, and operating as a major trafficker in moving the deadly drugs. However, Holmes didn’t work alone.

The DJ was working alongside a U.S. Postal Service Worker named Adrianna Lewis. Prosecutors claim the duo moved and transported “kilos of cocaine and fentanyl in a drug ring that stretched from the West Coast to Long Island” disguised by the image and use of the USPS mail carrier.

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Lewis was handed her sentence in December 2023, pleading guilty to “second-degree criminal facilitation, and was sentenced to five years of probation.”

Throughout their venture together, the pair would meet up along Lewis’ USPS delivery route to swap drugs. Prosecutors had even managed to film Holmes entering an apartment and leaving with a package of drugs that is said to have been left for him by Lewis.

Then, in March 2021, the FBI and the ATF issued arrest and search warrants for Holmes and Lewis after making several developments in the case. This breakthrough led to “more than 40 indictments allegedly selling narcotics,” with an investigation uncovering cocaine and fentanyl being transported through the United States Postal Service, beginning in Southern California.

Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly told the outlet about the plot, detailing Holmes and Lewis’ elaborate machination.

“Together with mail carrier Adrianna Lewis, Holmes mailed the drugs to the addresses of unsuspecting homeowners where Lewis then intercepted the packages and provided them to Holmes for a price.”

Packages transported along the USPS delivery route were said to have been “intercepted” by law enforcement, with specially trained K9 units being used to locate the packages that included the drug paraphernalia. In 2022, Holmes even contacted the post office inquiring about a package. Little did he know, the package that contained two kilograms of cocaine was already in the possession of the authorities. As the investigation concluded, law enforcement claimed to have seized “10 kilograms of cocaine and a kilogram of fentanyl—an estimated $1 million worth of drugs.”