A Texas man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for a drug conspiracy that involved the distribution of oxycodone pills across Southeastern Massachusetts and beyond.
According to the Massachusetts Department of Justice, U.S. District Court Judge Denise J. Casper sentenced 33-year-old Christan Russell of Tomball, Texas, to 70 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Russell was also forced to pay a fine of $30,000. Russell pleaded guilty in October 2024 to a conspiracy to distribute and possess oxycodone tablets with the purpose of distributing them as well as structuring monetary transactions. Russell was indicted by a federal grand jury in August 2023, along with five other coconspirators.
Gonsalves allegedly got hundreds of pills at a time from co-defendant Kenneth Veiga in exchange for tens of thousands of dollars, which he then dispersed. On one occasion, Gonsalves paid $22,000 for 800 oxycodone to distribute them further. A search of Gonsalves’ Fall River home in July 2023 yielded around $16,000 in cash and 400 oxycodone tablets…