The fentanyl-laced pills deceptively resembled prescription medications, prosecutors say.
Taurean Venable, 37, was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff after being convicted last fall of conspiracy to distribute more than seven kilograms of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, which prosecutors noted has become the“Fentanyl imposes a significant harm on society,” prosecutors wrote in a memo urging a 12-year sentence for Venable.
Inside a blender on the kitchen counter, police found more than a thousand grams of fentanyl, or a fentanyl-laced substance According to the criminal complaint, Venable assisted the co-conspirators in pressing the illicit pills and then distributing them to customers throughout Arlington and Washington. Prosecutors say the several conspirators used the pill presses to manufacture thousands of pills resembling legitimate prescription medications, such as Oxycodone.
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