Opioid Dealer In Melrose Mother's Overdose Death Gets 12 Years

A Lynn man was sentenced to more than a dozen years in federal prison after pleading guilty to dealing to a Melrose mother who overdosed shortly after getting one day after she got out rehab.

Yeffry Reynoso, 27, was sentenced to 12 and a half years in federal prison and four years of supervised release. He pleaded guilty in January to one count of conspiring to distribute at least 100 grams of heroin and at least 40 grams of fentanyl in 2016 and 2017. Reynoso also pleaded guilty to six counts of distributing heroin or fentanyl on various dates in 2017.

The Boston Globe said the Melrose woman was identified in court documents as K.H. The 34-year-old died in 2017, one day after leaving a 30-day rehab program in Taunton, according to The Globe.

Reynoso admitted that he sold and had others sell small quantities of heroin, heroin mixed with fentanyl, and/or fentanyl to people in Lynn, Melrose, Saugus, Peabody, Malden and surrounding areas, according to court documents. He said he sold the drugs almost daily, including once to the Melrose woman despite being told by her friend not to do so.