With help from the Burke County and Catawba County Sheriff’s Office, 44-year-old Alfonso Roman Brito was recently sentenced to 25 years in prison for trafficking methamphetamine, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina announced Friday. In 2019, law enforcement was investigating a drug trafficking organization in the Catawba and Burke areas.
According to the investigation, Brito was an inmate in the Georgia Department of Corrections and between 2019 and 2021 orchestrated the delivery of more than 100 kilograms of methamphetamine from Georgia to North Carolina, which was then sold to drug networks for local distribution. Six co-defendants have also been sentenced for drug-related offenses in connection with this case.
They are Charles Ray Hildebran, Jeffrey Ben Pavkovich, Billy Dean Potter, Phillip Anthony Godfrey, Britton Nicole Metcalf and Marcos Alan Martinez. Also assisting with the case was the DEA, Homeland Security, the SBI, Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office, Newton PD, Hickory PD and the Georgia Department of Corrections.
