A known drug and gun trafficker who is no stranger to the law in Virginia is going to spend another 15 years behind bars after being sentenced for distributing kilos of fentanyl throughout the area, federal authorities announced.
Carrington Hammond, 29, who has been prosecuted multiple times for drug and weapons offenses, according to officials, has been sentenced after being busted with an illegal weapon and host of drugs inside an Alexandria apartment.
Prosecutors say that Hammond worked with Arizona-based suppliers and local dealers to sell kilo-gram levels of fentanyl in Virginia.
The packages would be mailed across the country to him in Alexandria, each containing tens of thousands of counterfeit pills, which had the appearance of being oxycodone, but were in fact, laced with deadly amounts of fentanyl.
Hammond also trafficked fentanyl in its powder form, as well as cocaine in Virginia.
According to court documents, Hammond also sold multiple weapons during his conspiracy that were recovered by police investigators, including an illegal “ghost gun.”