Selling Fentanyl Disguised As Oxycodone Pills Lands FXBG Man In Prison

ALEXANDRIA, VA — A 25-year-old Fredericksburg man was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute thousands of counterfeit fentanyl pills across Virginia.

After obtaining counterfeit oxycodone pills that contained fentanyl from out-of-state suppliers, Khalil Elijah Williams redistributed them to his co-conspirators in Virginia, including 30-year-old Alhagi Gassim Conteh, 30, of Alexandria, court records say.

Williams obtained thousands of fentanyl pills from co-conspirators in shipments from Arizona and another state, according to court documents.

For example, in August 2024, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) in Phoenix seized a parcel destined to Williams at an apartment in Woodbridge, according to a release. USPIS inspectors in Arizona obtained and executed a search warrant and seized approximately a kilogram of counterfeit pills from the parcel. USPIS seized another shipment of counterfeit pills shipped from Phoenix that month that contained about 1,077.28 grams (gross weight) of fentanyl, or about 10,000 counterfeit pills. This shipment was also destined for Williams.

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Between March and August 2024, Conteh and others purchased about 910.51 net grams of counterfeit pills from Williams in transactions arranged by law enforcement, according to a release. On July 1, 2024, for example, Williams sold 2,500 fentanyl pills at a location in Fredericksburg.

On April 12, 2024, Conteh was arrested and then pleaded guilty on July 16, 2024 to charges of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and distribution of fentanyl, according to court records. On Oct. 22, 2024, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Williams was arrested as part of an Aug. 14, 2024 law enforcement operation, which resulted in the recovery of two handguns and miscellaneous ammunition from his home, court records say.