Anthony Basilici

The leader of a heroin trafficking ring that distributed the drug around Cape Cod and Pawtucket, Rhode Island has been sentenced along with two others for drugs offenses, a violent kidnapping, and a shooting over a drug debt.

A Buzzards Bay man has pleaded guilty to his role in a violent kidnapping related to a Cape Cod heroin trafficking ring, in which he and four others took a man to Rhode Island before stripping him naked and assaulting him, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Eleven Cape Cod and Rhode Island residents were arraigned Tuesday in federal court for participating in a wide-ranging heroin trafficking conspiracy.