Annandale drug dealer sentenced for fentanyl, gun possession

An Annandale-based drug dealer will spend the next 15 years in federal prison for possessing nearly 10,000 fentanyl pills with an apparent intent to distribute them.

Marcantonio Juarez Velasquez, 20, was sentenced yesterday (Thursday) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia — more than a year after his arrest, according to court records.

Juarez Velasquez was first observed by law enforcement “conducting a hand-to-hand narcotics transaction” in June 2024, which resulted in his arrest later that summer, federal prosecutors said…

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