CONCORD, N.H. – United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Luis D. Capo-Nieves pleaded guilty on March 1, 2017, to a federal charge of possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute. Capo-Nieves is 33 years old and lives in Manchester.
According to court documents and statements made during Capo-Nieves’s plea hearing, on July 1, 2016, the Nashua Police Department dispatched several officers to the parking lot of a city apartment complex. The officers were dispatched in response to a citizen complaint about drug dealing activity at that location. In the parking lot, the police observed Capo-Nieves and another individual make an exchange. A car Capo-Nieves was driving was the subject of a later police traffic stop. While searching the car after the stop, the police found about 279 grams of cocaine.
Capo-Nieves is scheduled for sentencing on June 12, 2017. Wilfredo Tanon Rodriguez, the person with whom Capo-Nieves was seen making the parking lot exchange, recently pleaded guilty to a related charge. He will be sentenced on June 2, 2017.
This matter was investigated by the Nashua Police Department. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Bill Morse.
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