A Taunton man with a “lengthy criminal history” is behind bars once more after he allegedly bought greater than a kilogram price of counterfeit Adderall drugs containing methamphetamine to an undercover officer.
Shavon “Soo Soo” Gurley, 29, is being detained pending a listening to subsequent week after authorities arrested him on drug costs on Tuesday, Performing U.S. Legal professional for Massachusetts Joshua Levy stated in a launch on Wednesday.
Authorities recognized Gurley as being concerned in trafficking fentanyl and methamphetamine along with a Brockton-based drug trafficking group, in line with charging paperwork.
The interplay with the undercover officer got here on Aug. 5, with Gurley allegedly promoting 6,000 counterfeit Adderall drugs containing methamphetamine, weighing over a kilogram. Gurley allegedly tried to persuade the officer to buy extra, saying he’d decrease the value per tablet if he bought 10,000 or 20,000 drugs, in line with a launch.
“As alleged in the charging documents, Gurley complimented the undercover officer’s ‘aura’ and promised to do business with the officer in the future,” the discharge states. “At the time of the sale, Gurley was allegedly on pretrial release for a domestic violence offense.”
The drug operation allegedly included clients promoting kilograms of fentanyl in Maine after they bought the drugs from Gurley.
Legislation enforcement executed search warrants at Gurley’s residence and car on Tuesday, allegedly recovering a loaded black firearm, plastic baggage containing roughly 10,000 counterfeit Adderall drugs crammed with methamphetamine, and two posters depicting cherubim.
Messages on the posters learn “I Only Fear the Feds” and “Rats Don’t Make it To Heaven.”
Amid the managed buy with the undercover officer earlier this month, Gurley allegedly boasted about his drug operations, the prime quality of the fentanyl and a property he stated he acquired by promoting narcotics.
Gurley allegedly bought kilograms of fentanyl for $30,000, and the drug’s “high quality” might be “adulterated with cutting agents into 10 kilograms,” in line with charging paperwork.
“It is further alleged that Gurley then stated he also sells a higher quality and purity fentanyl for $50,000, which can be adulterated into 50 kilograms,” the discharge states.
Gurley allegedly stated he was nearing $600,000 in earnings from the operation.
The Taunton man’s “lengthy juvenile record and criminal history,” Levy’s workplace highlighted within the launch, features a six- 10-year time period in state jail. That sentence stemmed from a 2012 conviction for assault and battery by the use of a harmful weapon as Gurley allegedly attacked a person with a pistol and pointed the firearm on the sufferer’s head.
Gurley is detained pending a listening to in federal court docket on Tuesday. He’s charged with distribution and possession with intent to distribute 500 grams and extra of a combination and substance containing a detectable quantity of methamphetamine.
