40-Year-Old Jerold Gilliam Sentenced To Nine Years In Federal Prison For Conspiracy To Distribute Fentanyl

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — U.S. District Judge sentenced 40-year-old Jerold Gilliam, of Baltimore to 9 years successful national situation for conspiracy to administer a substance containing fentanyl with the intent to distribute.

“The suspect was dealing the deadly narcotic fentanyl successful the Penn North country of Baltimore, which is simply a vicinity that our Strike Force has prioritized successful its enforcement efforts,” said Acting United States Attorney Jonathan F. Lenzner. “Jerold Gilliam was a narcotics trafficker who polluted our communities with deadly narcotics, and arsenic a result, helium volition walk astir a decennary successful national prison.”

In July 2019, his plea statement says that investigators from Drug Enforcement Administration’s Strike Force Group 1 started an probe into the country surrounding the intersection of Pennsylvania and North avenues successful Baltimore City.

During the investigation, came crossed ligament communications involving Gilliam and cause trafficking activities including the supply, cost, and proceeds of cause transactions. Visual surveillance corroborated calls betwixt co-conspirators including Gilliam retrieving packages and engaging successful hand-to-hand narcotics retail sales.

Between July 2019 and October 2019, investigators conducted controlled purchases from co-conspirators who talked astir cause trafficking with Gilliam. Chemical investigation of these purchases identified the beingness of fentanyl.

Investigators executed a hunt warrant connected November 21, 2019, for Gillam. Law enforcement recovered 50 gelatin capsules containing astir 18 grams of fentanyl.

In addition, instrumentality enforcement executed a hunt warrant astatine antithetic locations associated with the Bullseye DTO and suspected residences acting arsenic narcotics and packing and retention locations. As a result, instrumentality enforcement recovered a full of 138 grams of a fentanyl and quinine mixture, 19 grams of fentanyl, a container containing 268 grams of fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl mixture, cutting agents utilized successful preparing controlled substances, paraphernalia, and packaging materials for cause distribution.

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Gilliam agreed that helium oregon different members of the conspiracy distributed astatine slightest 400 grams of a substance containing fentanyl during the conspiracy.