A Massachusetts man was sentenced in federal court in Boston for leading a narcotics trafficking organization that distributed tens of thousands of counterfeit prescription pills laced with fentanyl and methamphetamine before laundering the money.
According to a release from the Massachusetts Department of Justice, U.S. District Court Senior Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV sentenced 35-year-old Lawrence Michael Nagle Jr. of Saugus to 19 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release. In April 2025, Nagle pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, involving 400 grams or more of fentanyl and 500 grams or more of methamphetamine; five counts of possession with intent to distribute various weights of fentanyl, methamphetamine, and oxycodone; one count of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime; and one count of being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.
Nagle Jr. was one of 27 people indicted in October 2022 in connection with a large-scale scheme to market counterfeit prescription drugs…