It was announced by U.S. District Attorney Karen Loeffler that sentencing had taken place on a cocaine dealer in two separate cases who has been sending cocaine to Alaska for years.

Judge Timothy Burgess sentenced Derneval Rodnell Dimmer in U.S. District court on Monday to 19 years in prison to be followed by ten years of supervised release.

36-year-old Dimmer is a former resident of Anchorage but had begun residing in the Las Vegas and Los Angeles area. Dimmer has used a myriad of different alias throughtime, including “Jabba,” “Pedro Dimmer,” “Ronnell Dimmer” and “Pedro Wood.”

According to the Justice Department, Dimmer’s drug trafficking is among the most serious that has been encountered in Alaska. Dimmer, by his own confession, has been dealing drugs in Alaska since at least 2009.

It was in September of 2009 that Dimmer sent three individuals to Alaska with at least 24 pounds of cocaine concealed in their luggage. Those individuals, and the drugs they were carrying to Alaska were intercepted and prosecuted, but initially, Dimmer’s involvement as the shipper of the drugs did not become known to investigators until his prints were found on one of the parcels at a later date.

By 2012, when Dimmer sent an additional two packages to Alaska, he was on the investigator’s radar. Dimmer sent two packages containing almost 19 pounds of cocaine from Burbank to his cousin, Quincy Hernandez.

Law enforcement intercepted one of the packages, and replaced the contents with a substitute. When law enforcement did a controlled delivery of the altered package, they would find the other parcel that was delivered to Hernandez by Dimmer.

Dimmer had packaged the cocaine in a Crosley “5 in 1” stereo to conceal the actual contents of the package.

The judge, when sentencing Dimmer, noted his prior criminal history, that consisted of a shooting and a DV conviction, and his admission that he had tried to obstruct justice by influencing the testimony of a witness in the case.