New Bedford Fentanyl Trafficker To Serve at Least a Decade in Prison
Bristol County District Attorney’s Office
Thomas M. Quinn III
District Attorney
Press Release
January 26, 2023
A 44-year-old Fentanyl trafficker with an extensive criminal history was sentenced to serve 10 to 12 years in state prison last week in Fall River Superior Court, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III announced.
Kenny Gonzalez was arrested by New Bedford Police on September 15, 2022, while in possession of just under 600 grams of fentanyl. On that date, New Bedford Police executed a search warrant on the Nash Road public housing apartment Gonzalez was living in with his girlfriend and her two young children. Police had obtained the warrant after an extensive investigation into the defendant’s fentanyl delivery service. Located inside the children’s bedroom was a lockbox and a safe containing all the fentanyl, along with bags of mannitol (a cutting agent), several digital scales, a drug ledger, three cell phones, packaging materials and cut corner bags.
The defendant had been released from prison in New York 18 months prior to this arrest. He was serving a sentence in New York after being convicted of 1st degree manslaughter with intent to cause serious physical injury.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Kaitlyn O’Leary and the state prison sentence was imposed by Judge Sharon Donatelle.
“The defendant was found with a significant amount of fentanyl, a poisonous drug that is contributing to a significant amount of death and misery in our county,” District Attorney Quinn said. “Given the volume of drugs he was selling as part of his fentanyl delivery service, he clearly is a danger and needs to be kept off the street.”
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