A previously deported migrant living in the Bay State has been arrested for allegedly conspiring to distribute tens of thousands of fentanyl pills and illegally reentering the U.S., according to the feds.
Dominican national Juan Alexis Rodriguez Garcia, 35, has been unlawfully residing in Lawrence, the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office says.
Garcia — who was deported years ago following a fentanyl distribution conviction — was recently busted with nearly 65,000 fentanyl pills, according to the feds.
Garcia was initially admitted into the U.S. in 2009 as a lawful permanent resident in Puerto Rico. Then in 2016, he was arrested in North Andover for fentanyl distribution, and he was later convicted in 2018.
He was deported that year. Then sometime after his removal, Garcia allegedly unlawfully reentered the country.
