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Feds say fentanyl dealer used young kids to hand drugs over to buyers at Roslindale apartment

Federal officials charge a Dorchester man used an apartment at 4347 Washington St., near Hayes Road in Roslindale, as a stash house for his supply of fentanyl - and that he used two boys, one possibly as young as three, to answer the door and direct buyers to the drawers where they could find the drugs they would then pay for.

Snolbert "New York" Ramirez-Sandoval, 21, was charged with one count of distribution of fentanyl at his arraignment in federal court today, the US Attorney's office reports. He was ordered held pending a detention hearing.

According to the US Attorney's office, Ramirez-Sandoval sold fentanyl to a DEA informant at July 26 and Aug. 2. In both cases, according to an affidavit by a DEA agent on the case, the informant was instructed to go up to Apartment 6 in the Roslindale building. Both times - 11:45 a.m. in July and 5 p.m. in August - the informant was met at the door by two boys, one who appeared to be between 3 and 6 and the other between 11 and 14.

The affidavit states what happened after DEA agents gave the informant $600 for the July 26 purchase and wired him for both sound and video and he rang the bell for Apartment 6 and was buzzed in:

The older juvenile told CS-1, "The man is not here," and that the "stuff" was in the room in a drawer. CS-1 then walked to a room on the right-hand side of the apartment; inside, CS-1 observed a chest of drawers. CS-1 opened one of the drawers and located a purple rubber glove containing a powdery substance wrapped in a plastic baggie. CS-1 gave the juvenile money as payment for the substance. According to CS-1, the room was empty and did not appear to be used frequently.

The informant then arranged an even larger buy for Aug. 2 and went through the same process with the boys, but this time, after the older one told him "the man is not here," Ramirez-Sandoval called the informant and told him he was on his way over, the affidavit states. Agents watched Ramirez-Sandoval and a second, unidentified man arrive and go upstairs, where the second man handed the drugs over to Ramirez-Sandoval, who, after the informant gave him $1,000, handed him the plastic bag - with a warning to dilute it because it was particularly potent.

According to the affidavit, Ramirez-Sandoval was not unknown to Boston Police: He was charged with heroin trafficking in Roxbury in 2016, but Suffolk County prosecutors dropped the charge, then he admitted to sufficient facts for distribution of a Class A drug and was put on probation by a Roxbury judge in 2017.

If convicted on the federal charge, Ramirez-Sandoval faces up to 20 years in prison, the US Attorney's office reports.

Innocent, etc.

Complete DEA affidavit (1.4M PDF).

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from where Dapper lived.

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You've got him as "Ramirez-Sandoval" before the quoted part and "Sandoval-Ramirez" after.

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Just call him Snolbert.

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Fixed, thanks.

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https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/dorchester-man-arrested-distributing-...

The affidavit was very interesting! I can understand how point 48. requested it be sealed. Not sure why the judge didn't unless they wanted people to ask why this career criminal had not already been deported to the DR after the previous drug trafficking conviction.

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I feel bad for the kids and his landlord and other residents in the building. This pisses me off. Those little kids were already being trained to deal drugs. And the landlord is now probably going to have to pay to decontaminate the place because of the hazmat situation fetanyl causes.

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I read recently that they are considering (or may have already done) the removal of the actual fentanyl evidence from courtrooms because they don't want anything going wrong.
The kids were handling actual baggies of the stuff...damn. Oh, incidentally...where the hell was Mom?

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It has been determined that approximately 2-3 milligrams of fentanyl – the equivalent of five to seven individual grains of table salt – can induce respiratory depression, arrest, and possibly death.

https://www.mass.gov/advisory/trial-court-safety-advisory-and-protocols-...

Damn!

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this country increased it military budget to fight a war that really isn’t there for another 15 years while two MA children under ten years old are spending their summer vacation selling fentynal for some piece of shit that was already let go for selling drugs. This state is fucked up more than the country is!!!

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Roslindale - We're Too Upscale for Chain Stores!

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Drug dealers welcome.

Keep Roslindale junkies.

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