Brockton Man Sentenced for Fentanyl Trafficking

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BOSTON – A Brockton man was sentenced today for his role in distributing fentanyl throughout southeastern Massachusetts.

Eric Marques, 29, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Patti B. Saris to five years in prison and four years of supervised release. On March 25, 2021, Marques pleaded guilty to one count of distribution and possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or more fentanyl.

In 2019 and 2020, law enforcement conducted an investigation into fentanyl traffickers operating in southeastern Massachusetts. A cooperating witness and undercover police officer purchased a total of 180 grams of fentanyl and 260 pressed fentanyl pills from Marques. Marques was arrested on March 16, 2020. A search of residences tied to Marques in Brockton and Bridgewater resulted in the seizure of $10,700 in cash, bags of fentanyl, a digital scale and other drug packaging materials.

Acting United States Attorney Nathaniel R. Mendell; Matthew B. Millhollin, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Boston; Colonel Christopher Mason, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police; Brockton Police Chief Emanuel Gomes; East Bridgewater Police Chief Paul O’Brien; John Gibbons, U.S. Marshal for the District of Massachusetts; and Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz made the announcement today. Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Pohl of Mendell’s Narcotics and Money Laundering Unit prosecuted the case.


The remaining defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.


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