Bin Wang, a 43-year-old Chinese national living in Massachusetts, has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for distributing opioids in Ohio.
Wang, who operated Cambridge Chemicals, Wonda Science, and other companies from a warehouse in Woburn, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to 10 counts, including drug conspiracy, conspiracy to import a controlled substance, and drug distribution.
According to court documents, law enforcement began investigating shipments of carfentanil, fentanyl, and other opioids in August 2016, after a series of fatal overdoses in Northeast Ohio.
That investigation led them to several Chinese web sites, which they learned were selling kilogram amounts of fentanyl and fentanyl analogues, which were shipped via private carriers such as FedEx. One of the web sites was used to purchase acetylfentanyl that caused the overdose deaths of two Summit County residents in 2015, according to court documents.
Beginning in November 2016, undercover agents began ordering opioids and other drugs from a Chinese drug trafficking organization. The agents wired money to China using Western Union or MoneyGram. Investigators learned that the Chinese drug trafficking organization sent the drugs to Wang in Massachusetts, who in turn mailed the drugs domestically, including to locations in Northeast Ohio, according to court documents.
Court documents detail numerous sales and shipments of drugs from China to Massachusetts to Ohio from November 2016 through July 2017.
Wang was sentenced to 71 months in prison for his role in the fentanyl trafficking ring. The leaders of the Chinese drug organization, Fujing Zheng, aka Gordon Jin, and his father Guanghua Zheng, both reside in Shanghai, China, and have been charged with conspiracy to manufacture and distribute controlled substances, conspiracy to import controlled substances into the United States, operating a continued criminal enterprise, money laundering, and other crimes.
Key Facts
- State: Ohio
- Category: Drug Trafficking
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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