A Methuen man pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Boston to distributing fentanyl.
Twenty-eight-year-old Alexsander Padro pleaded guilty to distributing more than 40 grams of fentanyl before Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV, who scheduled sentencing for next Jan. 8. Padro was arrested in July of 2019.
U.S. Attorney Andrew E. Lelling’s office said Padro sold more than 40 grams of fentanyl to a cooperating source at a restaurant in Methuen on July 10, 2019. He also sold more than 40 grams of fentanyl to an undercover officer in March 2019 and $1,000 worth of fentanyl to an undercover officer in April 2019.
Padro faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years and up to 40 years in prison, a minimum of four years and up to a lifetime of supervised release and a fine of $5 million.