A 24-year-old Maryland man, Mynor Josue Fernandez Alfaro, has received a 63-month federal prison sentence for his role in distributing fentanyl, an opioid significantly more potent than heroin, across Washington D.C. and Maryland. According to a statement announced by U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves, along with several law enforcement partners, the sentence also includes a four-year term of supervised release following imprisonment.
Fernandez Alfaro pleaded guilty back in June 2021 to the charge of conspiring to distribute more than 40 grams of fentanyl. On top of Fernandez Alfaro s 63-month sentence, his alleged co-conspirator, Edward Steven Monge, was handed down a 96-month prison term for his role in the scheme. Boasting on his Instagram account about the scheme’s success, Fernandez Alfaro also possessed several firearms, some equipped with extended magazines or were military-style rifles, intended to protect his narcotic assets and profits by means of intimidation and the threat of violence, as reported by theU.S. Attorney’s Office.
During the undercover operations that led to their arrest, Fernandez Alfaro, along with Monge, had supplied co-conspirator Jennifer Echeverria Flores with over 4,500 fentanyl-laced pills, which she then sold to an undercover officer over five transactions within the states of Washington, D.C. and Maryland. Remarkably deadly, more than half of those pills contained lethal concentrations of fentanyl, exceeding 2 milligrams per pill – the amount the DEA considers to be a fatal dose. The pair are said to have netted over $150,000 in Cash App transactions in a year, despite lacking legitimate employment.
The comprehensive investigation was undertaken as part of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces program, striving to dismantle high-level criminal operations with the collaboration between federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. The Maryland Criminal Intelligence Network s strategy to make Maryland safer was also instrumental, providing strategy support and data sharing among agencies. Contributions came from multiple departments, including Homeland Security Investigations, with the case being prosecuted by the Justice Department’s Gaelin Bernstein and Assistant U.S. Attorney David T. Henek.
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