Edwin Otero

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.

An Osterville man was sentenced Monday to five and a half years in prison and six years of probation for his role in a large heroin trafficking organization.

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