Lawrence Fentanyl Dealer Gets 6 Years In Prison

MANCHESTER, NH — The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office has announced that another Bay State drug dealer has pleaded guilty and been sent to prison, according to a press statement. Luciano Vasquez, 35, of Lawrence, MA, pleaded guilty to a single count of possession of fentanyl with intent to sell in Hillsborough County Superior Court-North on Friday. After the plea on Jan. 5, 2018, Vasquez was sentenced to six to 12 years in prison for possessing 40 grams of the drug.

“(Vasquez) received an additional consecutive suspended sentence of 3 1/2 to 7 years for falsifying physical evidence because he hid the fentanyl when he was stopped and confronted by law enforcement,” according to Danielle Sakowski, an Assistant Attorney General.

Back in March 2017, the U.S. DEA’s Heroin Strike Force used an informant to arrange a purchase of drugs from Vasquez. He then drove from Lawrence to Manchester and was stopped by police. Vasquez was found to be in possession of the drugs, which he attempted to conceal in his “anal area,” according to an indictment in superior court last summer.

“Vasquez later told law enforcement that the informant he believed he was meeting was his only New Hampshire customer,” Sakowski noted.

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