Crime & Safety
Worcester Man Gets 11 Years For Dealing Heroin, Cocaine
Federal officials arrested Vito Nuzzolilo, 46, after a deadly overdose at his Grafton Street home in 2017.
WORCESTER, MA — A Worcester man whose Grafton Street apartment was the scene of a fatal drug overdose will spend more than 10 years in federal prison, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Vito Nuzzolilo, 46, was indicted in August 2017 along with five others — including a Worcester woman and several Maine residents — following a federal investigation. Nuzzolilo pleaded guilty last August to charges he dealt cocaine and heroin from his apartment and a band practice room he kept in Worcester.
A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced Nuzzolilo to 134 months in prison, plus 8 years of supervised release.
Nuzzolilo imported drugs from a New York City supplier, prosecutors said, and from a source in Leicester. Through a wiretap, federal investigators heard Nuzzolilo order 400 grams of heroin and a kilogram of cocaine in spring 2017. He was later caught with over 300 kilograms of cocaine, federal authorities said.
Kristen Little, who prosecutors say helped Nuzzolilo deal drugs in Worcester, was sentenced in November 2018 to 30 months in prison.
