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Fentanyl Distribution

Lexington Park, MD
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Fentanyl Dealer Hid From Police With Half Kilo In Lexington Park Home, Prosecutors Say Fentanyl Dealer Hid From Police With Half Kilo In Lexington Park Home, Prosecutors Say Fentanyl Dealer Hid From Police With Half Kilo In Lexington Park Home, Prosecutors Say
Fentanyl Dealer Hid From Police With Half Kilo In Lexington Park Home, Prosecutors Say A convicted fentanyl dealer in Lexington Park who tried to outwait police in a back bedroom will now have plenty of time to think about it — behind bars. Daisaun Altay Eric Culpepper, 31, has been sentenced to 27 years in prison, with 15.5 years of active incarceration, for possession of a large amount of fentanyl, destruction of evidence, and a probation violation, St. Mary's County State’s Attorney Jaymi Sterling announced this week. On Oct. 16, 2024, detectives with the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office served a search warrant at a home in Lexington Park during an ongoing drug trafficki…

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by Zak Failla
Glen Burnie, MD
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Anne Arundel County Dealer Gets 8 Years In Prison For Fentanyl Possession, Distribution: Feds Anne Arundel County Dealer Gets 8 Years In Prison For Fentanyl Possession, Distribution: Feds Anne Arundel County Dealer Gets 8 Years In Prison For Fentanyl Possession, Distribution: Feds
Anne Arundel County Dealer Gets 8 Years In Prison For Fentanyl Possession, Distribution: Feds An Anne Arundel County man was sentenced to eight years behind bars for fentanyl possession and distribution, authorities announced Thursday, May 14. Orlando Ray Coleman, Sr., 44, of Millersville, was sentenced to eight years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, US Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek L. Barron said in a joint release. Coleman pleaded guilty in November 2019 to operating as a drug trafficker in Annapolis and Baltimore with help from supplier Clarence Coby, wh…

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by Valerie Musson
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Drug Task Force Raids Apartment, Shuts Down Hudson Valley Fentanyl Operation Drug Task Force Raids Apartment, Shuts Down Hudson Valley Fentanyl Operation Drug Task Force Raids Apartment, Shuts Down Hudson Valley Fentanyl Operation
Drug Task Force Raids Apartment, Shuts Down Hudson Valley Fentanyl Operation A Hudson Valley drug task force raided an apartment allegedly being used to distribute fentanyl throughout the region. The raid occurred in Dutchess County on Thursday, March 7 on South Clinton Street in the city of Poughkeepsie. According to Det. Sgt. Adam Harris, the Dutchess County District Attorney’s Office Drug Task Force received numerous complaints about an apartment reportedly being used to distribute fentanyl and other dangerous drugs to vulnerable community members.  Residents in the area also reported being threatened by individuals in this apartment and they…

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by Kathy Reakes
Franklin Township, NJ
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Major Trafficker Gets 14 Years, No Parole, For Shipping 40 Pounds Of Heroin From Cali To NJ Major Trafficker Gets 14 Years, No Parole, For Shipping 40 Pounds Of Heroin From Cali To NJ Major Trafficker Gets 14 Years, No Parole, For Shipping 40 Pounds Of Heroin From Cali To NJ
Major Trafficker Gets 14 Years, No Parole, For Shipping 40 Pounds Of Heroin From Cali To NJ UPDATE: A major drug trafficker from Somerset County who flooded the New Jersey streets with major quantities of heroin -- some of it laced with deadly fentanyl -- must spend a plea-bargained 14 years in federal prison. William T. Bouza, 45, of Watchung, must serve out the entire term handed down by U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton in Newark because there's no parole in the federal prison system. The judge also sentenced him to five years of supervised release and ordered him to pay a $25,000 fine. Authorities targeted Bouza in early 2019 after intercepting 33 pounds of heroin stashed…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hartford, CT
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CT Drug Dealer Busted With 250 Bags Of Heroin, Fentanyl Sentenced CT Drug Dealer Busted With 250 Bags Of Heroin, Fentanyl Sentenced CT Drug Dealer Busted With 250 Bags Of Heroin, Fentanyl Sentenced
CT Drug Dealer Busted With 250 Bags Of Heroin, Fentanyl Sentenced A Connecticut man will spend more than two years in prison after pleading guilty to fentanyl distribution and firearm possession charges. Hartford resident Maico Turell, age 49, was sentenced to 30 months, or 2.5 years, behind bars Tuesday, May 24, in federal court in Hartford. Undercover police busted Turell in December 2020 when he sold them “distribution quantities” of heroin and fentanyl on two seperate occasions at his Franklin Avenue home, according to the US Attorney’s Office in Connecticut. A court-authorized search of his home turned up a loaded 9mm semiautomatic firearm, a 9mm ma…

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by Michael Mashburn
Worcester, MA
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Man Busted In Operation 'Devil's Highway' Gets 5 Years In Jail Man Busted In Operation 'Devil's Highway' Gets 5 Years In Jail Man Busted In Operation 'Devil's Highway' Gets 5 Years In Jail
Man Busted In Operation 'Devil's Highway' Gets 5 Years In Jail One of the 40 people police arrested in operation “Devil’s Highway” was sentenced to jail Tuesday, Sept. 8. Devil’s Highway was a 2019 police operation to stop drug trafficking in the Merrimack Valley. Law enforcement officials had focused their efforts on curtailing the distribution of drugs between Lawrence and New Hampshire. The 40 arrests resulting from the operation were made over 10 weeks last summer. Angel Rivera-Valle, aka Jose Antonio Serrano, 31, of Lawrence, was one of the 40 people caught in operation Devil’s Highway, He was sentenced to 64 months in prison and four years of su…

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by Kristin Palpini
Hartford, CT
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Hartford Drug Dealer Known As 'Eggy' Sentenced For Selling Fentanyl to Overdose Victim Hartford Drug Dealer Known As 'Eggy' Sentenced For Selling Fentanyl to Overdose Victim Hartford Drug Dealer Known As 'Eggy' Sentenced For Selling Fentanyl to Overdose Victim
Hartford Drug Dealer Known As 'Eggy' Sentenced For Selling Fentanyl to Overdose Victim A Hartford man who sold a fatal dose of fentanyl has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison. Edgardo “Eggy” Rivera, 28, was sentenced July 16 to 138 months of imprisonment followed by four years of parole for fentanyl distribution and firearm possession offenses. On July 17, 2017, Southington police responded to a residence on a report of an “unresponsive male," according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Connecticut. At the residence, medical personnel pronounced the victim deceased of a suspected drug overdose. Bags that contained fentanyl were found at the scene, court d…

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by Kristin Palpini
Brookfield, CT
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Man Charged With Distributing Fentanyl Throughout Fairfield County Man Charged With Distributing Fentanyl Throughout Fairfield County Man Charged With Distributing Fentanyl Throughout Fairfield County
Man Charged With Distributing Fentanyl Throughout Fairfield County An alleged “large-scale distributor of fentanyl” in Fairfield County is facing federal drug charges after being busted by undercover investigators in Connecticut, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. Anthony Figueroa-Gonzalez, 27, of Bridgeport, has been charged by a federal grand jury in New Haven for distributing fentanyl throughout Fairfield County. U.S. Attorney John Durham said that in August last year, the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Bridgeport High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force identified Figueroa-Gonzalez as a large-scale distributor of fentanyl.  On Sept.…

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by Zak Failla