The leader of a South Shore drug trafficking ring will serve more than 30 years in prison after a sentencing hearing Tuesday.
Aderito Patrick Amado, 34, of both Brockton and Quincy, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge William G. Young to 32 years in prison, with 10 years of supervised release.
Amado was convicted by a federal jury in June 2024 of a slew of drug trafficking charges. Amado was caught with hundreds of grams of fentanyl and cocaine, along with drug distribution equipment.
“Mr. Amado was the leader of an organization that pumped several kilograms of dangerous and deadly drugs into our communities, including fentanyl and fentanyl analogue,” said Acting United States Attorney Joshua S. Levy. He will now spend more than three decades in prison reflecting on his crucial role in driving fentanyl addiction and contributing to overdose deaths through his massive and street-level distribution, all in pursuit of the almighty money.
Until at least January 2021, Amado helped lead a conspiracy to distribute drugs in and around the Quincy and Weymouth areas. Investigators determined that the criminal conspiracy operated primarily out of a stash house in Weymouth, with additional drug paraphernalia in Amado’s Quincy and in his car.
In January 2021, police searched his home in Quincy and found more than 40 grams of fentanyl, more than $270,000 in cash, a loaded Glock and ammunition. The Weymouth stash house was found to contain large-scale drug manufacturing paraphernalia, more than 10 kilos of fentanyl, fentanyl analogue and cocaine, as well as three firearms and ammunition.
Amado’s fingerprints were found on the ammunition trays and on one of the bags of cutting agents used to package cocaine.
Information from a GPS ankle monitor brought Amado to both his home and the storage location nearly every day for a two-month period while he was on probation for a state drug conviction.
“Taking this individual off the streets has undoubtedly saved lives in our community,” said Quincy Police Chief Mark Kennedy.
“This case shows that people like Aderito Patrick Amado, who terrorize communities with their guns, drugs and manipulation of others, will pay a high price,” Levy said.
As a result of our investigation by the Metro Boston Gang Task Force, Aderito Patrick Amado, the leader of a South Shore drug trafficking ring that distributed kilo quantities of fentanyl, fentanyl analog and cocaine, has been sentenced to 32 years in prison. https://t.co/3oqpgO3N6f pic.twitter.com/l2EgZINLRI
— FBI Boston (@FBIBoston) October 17, 2024
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