Colorado man who had nearly 6,000 fentanyl pills sentenced to 40 years in prison

A 27-year-old man from a city north of Boulder, Colorado, has been sentenced to 4 many years in jail after officers stated they seized almost 6,000 fentanyl drugs. The Weld County District Attorney’s Office stated that the person from Greeley had dealt “mass quantities of medication” within the county. 

Andrew Durdy was being investigated by the county’s drug activity power crew in 2022 for his dealings. Throughout that investigation, officers stated they intercepted three postal packages from California that contained fentanyl. At one level, Durdy additionally bought fentanyl to undercover officers, the D.A.’s workplace stated, all of which resulted within the seizure of about 5,800 fentanyl drugs. 

However that quantity “was a conservative rely,” Chief Deputy District Legal professional Michael Pirraglia stated throughout Durdy’s sentencing listening to, the D.A.’s workplace stated. 

“Any a kind of drugs might have killed somebody,” Pirraglia stated. “Backside line, he made a revenue off destroying different individuals’s lives, and we cannot tolerate this kind of conduct in our neighborhood.”

Durdy was sentenced to 40 years within the state’s division of corrections on December 21, the D.A.’s workplace stated late final week. His sentencing took place two months after he pleaded responsible to 2 counts associated to the drug seizure – one rely of conspiracy to possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl and one rely of possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl. 

In October of final yr, drug activity power officers within the county stated they broke up a drug trafficking group that was suspected of transporting methamphetamine and counterfeit M-30 drugs that contained fentanyl within the area. 

In line with CBS Colorado, officers discovered greater than 65,000 counterfeit M-30 drugs that contained fentanyl and greater than 34 kilos of meth through the course of that investigation.  

Li Cohen

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