A Dunkirk man who was found to possess a substantial amount of cocaine will spend six years in state prison. Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt says 42-year-old Jorge Negron-Velazquez was sentenced Monday in County Court after being convicted of 3rd-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. He also received three years post-release supervision. The charge resulted from a February 2024 traffic stop in the city, where Dunkirk Police located 128 grams of cocaine following a search of a vehicle that Negron-Velazquez was driving. He was subsequently indicted by a grand jury in July 2024 on charges of 2nd- and 3rd-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. He pleaded guilty to the lesser charge on September 22, 2025, about one month before a trial was scheduled to begin.
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