Maryland men charged with trafficking fentanyl disguised as candy into Connecticut

HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) – Two males from Maryland had been charged with trafficking 1000’s of fentanyl tablets into Connecticut.

Oscar Flores, 34, of Mount Rainier, MD, and 25-year-old Severo Alelar of Hyattsville, MD, had been indicted by a federal grand jury in Hartford, based on the U.S. State’s Legal professional for the District of Connecticut.

In keeping with court docket paperwork and statements made in court docket, on Sept. 8, 2022, Flores, Alelar and others arrived in an SUV at a gathering location in Wethersfield to promote roughly 15,000 fentanyl tablets to an undercover DEA agent. After Flores confirmed the secret agent a pattern on the fentanyl tablets, the agent indicated that he wanted to journey to a different location to select up the cash. Flores, Alelar and the others adopted the secret agent’s automobile as they traveled south into Rocky Hill. 

When a Rocky Hill police officer tried to cease the SUV for a site visitors violation, the motive force of it sped and ran over a roadside curb onto a grass space alongside the aspect of the street the place legislation enforcement autos boxed it in.  Investigators searched the SUV and located quite a few Nerds sweet containers and Skittles sweet luggage containing 1000’s of fentanyl tablets.

“Trafficking fentanyl is already and undoubtedly a critical offense, however one doesn’t must stretch their creativeness too far to think about how disguising fentanyl tablets in kids’s sweet packaging, as we allege, may end up in much more tragic penalties in the neighborhood,” mentioned U.S. Legal professional Vanessa Roberts Avery.  “I thank the DEA Activity Power members for his or her work on this investigation and for taking this substantial amount of fentanyl off the road.”

“Fentanyl is inflicting deaths in report numbers and DEA’s high precedence is to aggressively pursue anybody who distributes this poison as a way to revenue and destroy individuals’s lives,” mentioned DEA Particular Agent in Cost Brian Boyle.  “Unlawful drug distribution ravages the very foundations of our households and communities so each time we take tablets containing fentanyl off the streets, lives are undoubtedly saved.  This investigation demonstrates the energy of collaborative native, county and state legislation enforcement efforts in Connecticut and our sturdy partnership with the U.S. Legal professional’s Places of work.”

The indictment charged Flores and Alelar with conspiracy to distribute, and to own with intent to distribute, 40 grams or extra of fentanyl, and with possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or extra of fentanyl.

Every cost carries a compulsory minimal time period of imprisonment of 5 years a most time period of imprisonment of 40 years.

Flores and Alelar have been detained since Sept. 8.

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