A Massachusetts man was sentenced on Thursday in federal court in Boston to his role in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy.
Melvin Antonio Perez Medina, 33, of Lawrence, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to 64 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
In October 2023, Perez Medina pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute hundreds of grams of deadly fentanyl.
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Perez Medina was indicted by a federal grand jury in November 2022 along with alleged co-conspirators Fraily Rodriguez Morillo and Manuel Fredis Guerrero Guzman.
According to court documents, between March 2022 and August 2022, Perez Medina and, allegedly, Morillo and Guzman conspired to distribute fentanyl and a fentanyl analogue in and around the Lawrence, Woburn, Wilmington, and Andover areas.
As part of the conspiracy, Perez Medina distributed fentanyl and a fentanyl analogue on three separate occasions during the summer of 2022.
Officials said at the time of Perez Medina’s arrest in August 2022, he was found in possession of nearly two kilograms of a mixture containing fentanyl and a fentanyl analogue concealed inside a cereal box.
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In total, Perez Medina was responsible for distributing and attempting to distribute over 900 grams of fentanyl and over 2.5 kilograms of a fentanyl analogue.
This case is part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) operation. OCDETF identifies, disrupts, and dismantles the highest-level criminal organizations that threaten the United States using a prosecutor-led, intelligence-driven, multi-agency approach.
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