A Taunton man has been slapped with a five to eight-year prison term after he got busted dealing heavy-duty drugs from the sober house he bunked in, officials said. Convicted drug pusher Daniel St. Pierre, 38, admitted to his part in the narcotics trade on Thursday, trafficking fentanyl, cocaine, and methamphetamine from the facility meant for recovery, according to reports from the Bristol District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn's office.
In a chilling revelation of betrayal within the walls of recovery, police nabbed St. Pierre after he was seen dishing out what looked like pills to a woman on the stairs of the sober home, according to the Boston Globe. The buyer, caught in the act, admitted to swallowing one of the three drugs believed to be Adderall, which testing later confirmed to be methamphetamine.
Detailed in reports from the WBSM, detectives watched the exchange on June 20, 2023, at the sober home located at 57 Church Street, right before they swooped in on St. Pierre. After his arrest, cops turned the sober home upside down and came up with a startling haul—over half a kilo of methamphetamine, nearly a two dozen grams of cocaine, and hundreds of pills equaling 46 grams of deadly fentanyl.
Amid the discovery, St. Pierre's room turned out to be a veritable drug den, featuring "hide cans" for stashing narcotics, plastic bags, scales, and over $11,000 in dirty money. "The defendant was selling large amounts of very dangerous drugs that are upending communities and ruining people's lives," Quinn was quoted saying, establishing the necessity of the robust sentence to quell the poison peddler's threat to the public, as reported by WBSM.
