Member of Brockton-Based Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to 19 Years in Prison | USAO-MA

BOSTON – The member of a violent Brockton-primarily based drug trafficking business (DTO) was sentenced currently in federal court in Boston for his position in a heroin trafficking conspiracy.

Lutherson Bonheur, a/k/a “Boogs,” 29, of Brockton, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Courtroom Decide William G. Young to 19 a long time in jail and five a long time of supervised launch. In October 2020, Bonheur pleaded guilty to one particular rely of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or far more of heroin and cocaine one depend of possession with intent to distribute heroin two counts of possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or far more of heroin and cocaine two counts of getting a felon in possession of a firearm a person rely of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense and a person count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense ensuing in loss of life.

Bonheur was arrested and billed in November 2015 alongside with four co-conspirators as element of a coordinated enforcement operation dubbed “Operation Heroin Freeway.” The investigation discovered co-conspirator Marvin Antoine to be the leader of a DTO included in drug and sexual intercourse trafficking in the Brockton region. Eventually, 10 defendants were being charged and convicted in this circumstance.

Bonheur was Antoine’s trusted ideal-hand person and lived at the DTO’s stash household which managed heroin, cocaine, and firearms. The stash location also housed women of all ages who Bonheur and Antoine trafficked for commercial sexual intercourse acts and had been utilised by Bonheur and Antoine to take a look at new batches of heroin right before marketing to buyers. On a day by day foundation, Bonheur and his co-conspirators packaged and sent drugs to a wide buyer foundation in between Brockton and the South Shore.

In addition to marketing medicines, Bonheur collected drug debts owed to the DTO and at moments made use of violence to do so. In September 2015, roughly 3 weeks immediately after currently being unveiled on bail for possession of heroin, Bonheur lured a heroin customer to a spot in Hyde Park, below the guise that Bonheur desired the sufferer to perform counter-surveillance when he ordered heroin. When they arrived in Hyde Park, Bonheur shot and killed the target with a handgun. Bonheur subsequently drove to Antoine’s home exactly where they arranged a sale of the murder weapon. The handgun was afterwards intercepted by investigators.

Very first Assistant United States Attorney Joshua S. Levy Brian D. Boyle, Exclusive Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New England Industry Division Colonel Christopher Mason, Superintendent of the Massachusetts Condition Law enforcement and Barnstable Police Chief Matthew Sonnabend made the announcement today. Unique support was supplied by the Boston Police Division and the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office environment.  Assistant U.S. Attorneys Leah B. Foley and Stephen W. Hassink of the Narcotics & Revenue Laundering Device prosecuted the case.

This effort and hard work is section of an Structured Criminal offense Drug Enforcement Undertaking Forces (OCDETF) procedure. OCDETF identifies, disrupts, and dismantles the maximum-level criminal businesses that threaten the United States employing a prosecutor-led, intelligence-pushed, multi-company tactic. Supplemental facts about the OCDETF Plan can be uncovered at https://www.justice.gov/OCDETF.