Haverhill, MA, Man Sentenced In Organized Drug Trafficking Case

CONCORD, NH — A man from Haverhill, Massachusetts, has been sentenced to four years in prison for his role in organized fentanyl trafficking in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Trevor Ahearn, 28, was sentenced Wednesday for conspiring to distribute the drug as part of a trafficking organization. Thirty-three other defendants are charged in the conspiracy case, U.S. Attorney Scott Murray said in a statement.

Ahearn was of 45 people charged in the trafficking case after a authorities conducted a raid in Lawrence, Massachusetts, seizing 30 kilograms of suspected fentanyl, two firearms and more than $300,000 in cash.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, the trafficking organization gave Ahearn at least one 200-gram bag of fentanyl on each day he worked. In return, he was expected to sell the drug with $6,000 in proceeds. Ahearn sold the drug to various customers in New England, including New Hampshire, according to prosecutors.

Ahearn pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute the drug on Oct. 23.

“Fentanyl is clearly the most dangerous of the illegal drugs commonly sold in New Hampshire,” said Murray. “The transportation of this lethal substance into our state must be stopped."

Investigating this case was the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, comprised of members from multiple agencies and jurisdictions.

The fentanyl trafficking case pertaining to Ahearn and the other 33 defendants involved investigations by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Marshals, Customs and Border Protection, Internal Revenue Service, and Department of State's Diplomatic Security Office, as well as Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, State Police in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine, local police departments of Nashua, Lisbon, Littleton, Seabrook, and Massachusetts police departments of Haverhill, Methuen and Lowell, as well as offices of attorneys general in New Hampshire and Massachusetts and the Essex County District Attorney's Office in Massachusetts.