WORCESTER – In 2018, a fatal fentanyl-related drug overdose led law enforcement investigators to begin asking questions that led them to a drug trafficking network in the Fitchburg area. After 17 defendants in connection with the case were convicted and sentenced, the leader of the drug network was sentenced to prison in federal court on […]
BOSTON – A Rhode Island man was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for his role in a wide-ranging cocaine trafficking conspiracy.Hector Matos,
Trafficking conspiracy alleged
TRENTON A Trenton woman has been charged along with two Massachusetts men in a drug trafficking conspiracy involving cocaine, crack cocaine, fentanyl and methamphetamine, according to a press release issued by the U.S. Department of Justice District of Massachusetts.
Shelby Kleffman, 31, and her co-defendant, Armani Minier-Tejada, 22, of Salem, Mass., were each charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute controlled substances including cocaine, cocaine base, fentanyl and methamphetamine and one count of conspiracy to possess, use and carry firearms to further a drug trafficking conspiracy.
Kleffman and Minier-Tejada, who goes by the street names of “Shotz” and “Gustavo,” were arrested in Maine last Friday morning, the Department of Justice stated.