Mass. Man Gets 51 Months in Prison on Drug Dealing Charge

CONCORD, NH - A U.S. District judge sentenced a Massachusetts man to 51 months in prison after he pled guilty to a single charge of dealing fentanyl in New Hampshire.

Hector Bienvenido Mateo-Beltre, according to U.S. Attorney Emily Gray Rice, was arrested on in 2015, after he attempted to deliver more than 200 grams of fentanyl to a customer in Manchester. After his arrest, Mateo-Beltre falsely claimed to be “Kevin Morales” of Dorchester, MA. Law enforcement officers later determined his true name.

"According to statistics maintained by the state of New Hampshire, more than half of the drug overdose deaths in New Hampshire in 2015 were related to fentanyl," she noted. "Because a single gram of heroin or fentanyl can be used to create multiple individual dosage units that can be sold 'on the street,' the quantity of fentanyl involved in this case could have generated hundreds of individual doses of fentanyl, each of which had the potential to cause a fatal overdose."

Mateo-Beltre was arrested with Tiffany Ramos of Manchester in 2015. When Ramos was arrested, she had about 125 grams of drugs in her bra, according to a DEA report.

The case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration, with assistance from other law enforcement agencies, including the New Hampshire State Police and the Manchester Police Department. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Debra Walsh and John J. Farley.