PATRICK LAKAMP

News Enterprise Editor

The drug trafficker who said he paid at least $250,000 in bribes to Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Joseph Bongiovanni between 2010 and 2017 was sentenced Friday to two years in prison on drug and weapons charges.

The sentencing of Ronald Serio follows an investigation into his large-scale marijuana trafficking that later branched into a federal bribery and corruption probe into the DEA's Buff alo office. It was after Serio's arrest in 2017, during his interview with a Homeland Security Investigations agent, that Serio uttered Bongiovanni's name, sparking the DEA probe. Until then, not a single member of law enforcement was investigating Bongiovanni. Later, Bongiovanni would become the first DEA agent in Western New York convicted of public co

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