A Reston man’s days of delivering cocaine in D.C. appear to be at an end.
Dusan Dimic, 41, was sentenced last week to 41 months — or three years and five months — in federal prison for driving rental and rideshare vehicles as part of a drug trafficking operation, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C.
U.S. District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton also sentenced Dimic to spend three years on supervised release following his prison term.
The sentence was announced on Friday (Feb. 28) by interim U.S. Attorney Edward Martin Jr., D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ibrar A. Mian.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the DEA and Metropolitan Police Department began investigating a drug delivery service that primarily operated in northwest D.C. in August 2022.
Over the next year, undercover law enforcement agents bought drugs from another man working with Dimic — previously identified as a 54-year-old man from Arlington — on 14 different occasions. Dimic either drove his co-conspirator around during the narcotics distributions or arranged for another driver, prosecutors say.
“During the undercover controlled purchases, Dimic frequently sat in the driver’s seat, the co-conspirator always sat in the front passenger’s seat, and the undercover agent (as the customer) sat in the rear passenger’s seat,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a press release. “The drug transactions took place immediately next to Dimic while he remained in the driver’s seat.”
According to the release, Dimic usually began his route by meeting the co-conspirator at a supermarket in the 2200 block of I Street NW in D.C. Court documents identify the supermarket as the Whole Foods Market on George Washington University’s campus.
The men then picked up “various individuals … to engage in narcotics sales,” the release says.
Operations were typically conducted on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 5-9 p.m. Dimic’s name and credit card appeared on records for Zipcar, a service that offers daily and hourly vehicle rentals, the U.S. Attorney’s Office says.
Dimic and the Arlington man were arrested at approximately 5:24 p.m. on Sept. 21, 2023. Between August 2022 and August 2023, they had sold 56 grams of cocaine per day on average, according to prosecutors.
When they arrested Dimic, police and DEA agents found 90 grams of cocaine on the floorboard near the driver’s seat of his vehicle, along with a bag containing his ID cards, cell phone and $2,304.51 in cash.
“From the co-defendant, law enforcement recovered $4,454.74 in cash, a blue bookbag containing multiple eyeglass containers with 483 grams of cocaine, and a medicine bottle containing 90 grams of methamphetamine pills located on the front passenger floorboard,” the release said.
After getting indicted by a grand jury in May 2023, Dimic pleaded guilty on Nov. 12, 2024 to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine.
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