Crack and cocaine drug dealer
from Oxford Circle is sentenced

Romel Bolger’s street rivals missed their opportunity to take him out in November 2006. Last week, prosecutors got the job done as a federal court ordered the convicted Oxford Circle drug dealer to spend more than nine years in prison.
According to authorities, Bolger, 27, and two co-defendants were operating a large-scale cocaine and crack distribution operation out of their home on the 1000 block of Levick St. without interference from police until someone tried to gun down Bolger on Nov. 24, 2006.
Police at the time described the incident as a shoot-out in the street outside the house. When officers arrived at the scene shortly after 6:30 p.m., they found Bolger lying in a median with a wounded shoulder, as well as a bullet-riddled Pontiac Grand Prix nearby with a gun inside of it. The other shooters had fled.
Detectives obtained a search warrant for Bolger’s house and found 61 kilos of cocaine worth more than $6 million, along with $176,000 in cash, 178 grams of crack, 253 grams of marijuana and three more handguns.
Bolger was treated at Frankford Hospital-Torresdale and arrested on drug and weapons charges.
Authorities later captured and arrested two others who lived at the house, Kenneth Thompson and Latoya Kirkland, and charged them in connection with the drug operation.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office adopted the case and won convictions of Bolger in January for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine.
At the same trial, Thompson was convicted of conspiracy, controlling and maintaining a house used in drug trafficking and charges of both possession and intent to distribute. He was later sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Kirkland was convicted of controlling and maintaining a drug house and sentenced to 36 months in prison.
In the federal court system, there are no provisions for early release via parole. ••