Heroin Dealer Gets Jail Time For Selling In Montgomery County

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD — A Takoma Park man was sentenced to prison after he plead guilty to selling fentanyl-laced heroin that caused an overdose in Montgomery County, prosecutors said.

Stanley Eugene Green Jr., 42, was sentenced to 14-and-a-half years in prison in the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, followed by five years of supervised release, for Distribution of Heroin and Possession of Firearms in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime.

Green admitted in his plea agreement that starting around February 2015, he distributed, conspired to distribute, possessed with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl until April 27, 2017.

A confidential informant told police about heroin sales at an apartment at 636 Houston Court in Takoma Park in August 2016. Local law enforcement identified and investigated someone named "Rico," who was selling heroin laced with fentanyl. Officers later identified "Rico" as Green.

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A person who bought heroin from Green suffered an overdose and required emergency medical attention in late January 2017, prosecutors said. The victim fell into a coma and was hospitalized for about 2-and-a-half months.

As part of his plea agreement, Green will be required to forfeit the firearms, ammunition, and $37,592.00 seized during the search of his residence.

The rate of fatal drug and alcohol overdoses in Maryland continues at an epidemic pace, say state officials, who urged users to get into treatment before it's too late.

The county has seen a 145 percent increase in the number of fatal and non-fatal opioid overdoses in the last four years, Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger said at a January meeting.

Montgomery County Police responded to 57 non-fatal overdoses and 69 fatal overdoses in 2017, compared to 52 non-fatal and 40 fatal overdoses in 2014.

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