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A Livermore man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for distributing heroin in Afganistan that was headed to the United States, acting United States Attorney Alex Tse announced Wednesday.
Shamsuddin Dost, 23, was convicted of one count of conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin for the purpose of unlawful importation and two counts of distribution of one kilogram or more of heroin for the purpose of unlawful importation.
Prosecutors said Dost had contacted a confidential source to ask him to bring heroin from Afganistan to the United States and connected the source with a heroin supplier in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
The supplier provided two kilograms of heroin, and Dost sold another five kilograms that was to be bound for the United States.
At the time of his arrest, Dost was planning the sale of 100 kilograms of heroin that was destined for the United States, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said Dost, during recorded conversations, claimed to have close ties to the Taliban in Pakistan.
He also discussed schemes to send heroin to Moscow and Pakistan, and he said that if someone betrayed him, he would not hesitate to pay $1,000 to “slice him like ground beef.”
In addition to the prison term, Dost was also sentenced to a five-year period of supervised release. Dost has been in custody since November.
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