Crime & Safety
Montgomery County Heroin Dealer 'Wasn't Aware Of Danger' Of Drugs: Report
The convicted heroin dealer, who operated a drug trafficking operation from his apartment, said that he didn't know heroin's effects.
A Lower Gwynedd man convicted of dealing heroin from his apartment said that he didn’t realize the danger heroin posed, according to Montgomery Media.
Edward Ernesto Gomez-Veloz, 40, of Lower Gwynedd, was sentenced to three to eight years in state prison, the report states.
“At times we don’t realize the danger we’re causing until we ourselves go through it. Truthfully, I didn’t know the effect that heroin would have on people,” Gomez-Veloz said, according to Montgomery News. “Now, being in prison I see the damage that drugs can do to other human beings. I don’t want to see any other human beings taking drugs.”
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Gomez-Veloz was operating out of the Madison Hunt Club Apartments on the first block of Meadowbrook Road in Lower Gwynedd, the report states.
Gomez is a Guatemalan national and may face deportation after he is released from prison, according to the report.
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