Fentanyl dealer pleads guilty in Woodbridge teen’s 2022 overdose death | News

A Woodbridge man pled guilty in federal court Thursday to selling fentanyl, a powerful opioid, to a 15-year-old Woodbridge boy in April 2022 that resulted in the teen’s death.

On April 23, 2022, Maurice Lamont Gordon, 37, sold counterfeit pressed pills containing fentanyl that resulted in the teen’s fatal overdose, according to a news release from the Eastern District Court of Virginia.

The boy and another person who is unnamed in the court documents, walked to Gordon’s apartment on East Longview Avenue in Woodbridge to purchase “percs,” a street name for Percocet or counterfeit pills. The pills contain fentanyl and were made to resemble Percocet and other legitimate oxycodone pills, the release said.

The teen provided money to the other individual to buy the drugs and was provided with his share of the “percs” sold by Gordon. After the purchase, the victim returned home and never left, the release said.

The following day, the teen was found unresponsive in his home and was pronounced dead by Prince William County first responders.

Police found narcotics paraphernalia near the victim’s body, including burnt aluminum foil with fentanyl residue. The Virginia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled the teen died of accidental fentanyl overdose after an autopsy found fentanyl in his blood with no other drugs or alcohol, the release said.

On Oct. 12, 2022, law enforcement executed a search warrant on Gordon’s residence and seized marijuana, cocaine, a large quantity of counterfeit pressed pills containing fentanyl and a Polymer 80 semi-automatic “ghost gun” bearing no serial number and ammunition.

Police seized over 1,100 pills, the release said.

Gordon is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 3 and faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 20 years and up to life in prison, but actual sentences for federal crimes are typically less than the maximum penalties, the release said.