CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Seven Hills man pleaded guilty Monday to federal drug charges following his October arrest alongside a then-Brooklyn mayoral candidate and the son of the Parma Heights mayor.

Alfonso Yunis, 42, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and two counts of distribution of oxycodone. Chief U.S. District Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. will sentence him Aug. 23.

Under a plea agreement he reached with prosecutors, Yunis faces a prison sentence of between two and two-and-a-half years, his attorney Craig Weintraub said. Prosecutors have also agreed to drop eight other drug charges.

Yunis, then-Brooklyn Law Director Scott Claussen and attorney Brian Byrne were arrested in October after a drug squad raided Yunis' Broadview Road home. Weintraub described Claussen and Byrne, the son of Parma Heights Mayor Mike Byrne, as users, while Yunis was their friend and the one who supplied them with drugs.

Weintraub said that "we are satisfied that we reached a very reasonable resolution." His client is free on bond.

Claussen and Byrne, who also have a law firm together on Detroit Avenue in Cleveland, entered deferred prosecution agreements in January in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. Their felony drug charges will be dropped if they complete a drug-treatment program and a period of community control.

Claussen was a candidate for Brooklyn mayor at the time of his arrest. He lost to city council President Katie Gallagher. He was replaced as law director by Kevin Butler.

A criminal complaint says that a U.S. Postal Inspector employee began investigating Yunis in September after discovering that a package sent from a Las Vegas resident contained oxycodone.

Investigators tracked several packages mailed to Yunis that contained drugs. They arrested Yunis after placing a tracking device in a package and waited for him to open it, the complaint says.

Agents went to Yunis' home after he opened the package, and found him, Claussen and Byrne cutting up prescription pills with credit cards.

Agents found pills, paraphernalia and nearly $10,000 in cash at Yunis' house. Yunis admitted to agents that he, Claussen and Byrne were shaving oxycodone pills to bake them and remove the extended-release components so they could snort it, the complaint says.

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