Shavon Gurley, a Taunton man, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for selling over a kilogram of counterfeit pills containing methamphetamine to an undercover officer.

Gurley, who had a violent criminal history, including a previous conviction for assault with a firearm, was also involved with a drug trafficking operation linked to fentanyl and methamphetamine in Brockton. His arrest followed a series of controlled purchases, during which he sold counterfeit Adderall pills and boasted about the scale of his operations, including the distribution of kilograms of fentanyl.

During an undercover operation, law enforcement officers communicated with Gurley about purchasing methamphetamine pills. Later Gurley then sold 6,000 counterfeit Adderall pills containing methamphetamine, weighing over a kilogram, to an undercover officer. Gurley indicated that he sold fentanyl that his customers would then go on to sell in Maine. 

Gurley also mentioned that the fentanyl could be adulterated with cutting agents into 10 kilograms. Gurley then stated he also sells a higher quality and purity fentanyl for $50,000, which can be adulterated into 50 kilograms. At the time of the sale, Gurley was on pretrial release for a domestic violence offense.

During the execution of search warrants at Gurley’s residence and vehicle, law enforcement recovered a loaded black firearm, two posters depicting cherubim – with captions that read, “I Only Fear the Feds,” and “Rats Don’t Make it To Heaven,” – a bag of a controlled substances believed to be fentanyl, approximately 10,000 counterfeit Adderall pills believed to contain methamphetamine.

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