A Massachusetts man was sentenced to more than a decade in prison in connection with a scheme to make and distribute pills containing fentanyl and methamphetamine.
Schuyler Oppenheimer, a 35-year-old Cambridge resident, was sentenced to 13 years on Friday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Oppenheimer was arrested in July 2025 and pleaded guilty in January.
Oppenheimer was skilled in the chemical process used in making fentanyl, prosecutors said. In 2019, he obtained more than 200 kilograms of filler powders used in the making of counterfeit pills, and he also communicated with an illegal chemical supplier in China to discuss purchasing ingredients that would allow him to synthesize fentanyl in a laboratory…