Jose Perez Felix, Fentanyl Trafficking, Massachusetts 2021

BOSTON – A Boston-based fentanyl and cocaine supplier was sentenced to 87 months in prison for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy.

Jose Perez Felix, a/k/a ‘Eugenio Piedraita-Rivera,’ ‘Roberto Patricio Ramirez,’ ‘Grande,’ 44, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton to four years of supervised release.

Perez Felix pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, 400 grams or more of fentanyl, cocaine, cocaine base, oxycodone, and marijuana and one count of distribution of heroin.

In 2018, federal and state law enforcement agents began investigating a violent Brockton drug crew headed by Djuna Goncalves. The investigation revealed that Goncalves and others distributed large quantities of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, cocaine base, and marijuana throughout Southeastern Massachusetts from a base of operations in Brockton.

The investigation also identified Perez Felix as a Boston-based fentanyl and cocaine supplier for Goncalves and others. Intercepted communications from Perez Felix’s cellphone determined that he distributed large quantities of heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine from a base of operations in Boston throughout the greater Boston area and that Perez Felix routinely provided Djuna with supplier quantities of fentanyl (50 grams at a time).

On April 9, 2019, agents observed Perez Felix deliver heroin to a customer in Dorchester and subsequently seized 60 grams of a heroin-fentanyl mixture from the buyer. A search of Perez Felix’s residence in May 2019 resulted in the seizure of cellphones, materials commonly used to package drugs for street-level sale, digital scales, and a bag containing approximately 60 grams of a heroin-fentanyl mixture.

In all, 17 defendants, including Perez Felix, were indicted as part of a wide-ranging drug trafficking conspiracy reaching from Boston to Brockton to Cape Cod. Perez Felix is the 14th defendant to be sentenced in the case.

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