New Bedford Heroin Dealer Sentenced to Prison

Bristol County District Attorney’s Office 

Thomas M. Quinn III 

District Attorney

Press Release

March 24, 2016

Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III announced today that a 31-year-old New Bedford heroin dealer was sentenced to serve three-and-a-half years to six years in state prison yesterday.

Patrick Parent pleaded guilty yesterday in Fall River Superior Court to charges of trafficking in excess of 36 grams of heroin, possession with intent to distribute oxycodone-subsequent offense and possession of methadone with intent to distribute. The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Jeanne Veenstra and the sentence was handed down by Judge Gregg Pasquale.

On August 26, 2014, New Bedford Police executed a search warrant at the defendant’s apartment, located at 49 Roosevelt Street, after a lengthy investigation into a heroin delivery service. Inside the apartment, police seized several bags of heroin, 516 tablets of methadone, 162 tablets of oxycodone, $4,058 in cash, digital scales and other items associated with the drug distribution trade.

“I’m happy that this drug dealer, who was found with large amounts of heroin, will be off the street for up to six years,” District Attorney Quinn said. “He is another example of the drug dealers who are fueling the opiate epidemic and profiting financially from the pain they are inflicting.”

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