Fentanyl Cases Bring Charges, Plea, 20-Year Sentence

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Authorities in Worcester, Massachusetts, charged Piotr Zukowski with intending to distribute fentanyl and crack cocaine after a resident reported a suspicious vehicle and frequent visitors. In Pennsylvania, Joshua Ward received a 20-year prison sentence for selling fentanyl to a person he made sample the drug; the person overdosed and survived after hospitalization. Separately, Massachusetts resident Edgar Arias pleaded guilty to intending to distribute fentanyl after investigators said he transported a 100-gram shipment to an undercover buyer in Bangor, Maine; he faces up to 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine.

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