A Quincy man is headed to the slammer after a judge sentenced him to eight years for packing heat and peddling drugs, officials said yesterday. Rey David Fulcar, 38, got the stiff sentence from U.S. District Court Judge Denise J. Casper after he pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon and to intent to distribute cocaine and fentanyl, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced.
The bust went down last summer when Fulcar was spotted selling drugs out of his car in Boston. The cops nabbed a buyer who had just snagged three bags of crack from him, and when they went after Fulcar, he tried to make a break for it. When the authorities finally reeled him in, they found a mini-pharmacy in his undergarments—13 bags of cocaine and fentanyl no less, but that wasn't the end of it; they also uncovered a wad of cash and a stash of suspected marijuana in his vehicle.
Fulcar's troubles didn't stop there, as a search of his apartment revealed enough fentanyl and cocaine to qualify as trafficking, a loaded semi-automatic packing seven rounds, and a list that was basically a who's who of his druggie client base along with their orders and outstanding debts; not to mention the typical drug lord accoutrements like a scale, packaging, and other paraphernalia all nicely laid out in his kitchen.
Acting U.S. Attorney Joshua S. Levy, along with several federal and local law enforcement honchos, delivered the news about Fulcar's sentencing, after his case was put on ice last December when he pled out, the bust was a big feather in the cap of the multi-agency task force overseen by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, which aims to put big-time drug and gun traffickers behind bars and cut off the nation's illegal drug supply.
Fulcar look's forward to three years of supervised release after his eight-year stint, a detail mentioned in the announcement by the U.S. Attorney's Office. The case was hammered out by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Fred M. Wyshak, III and John T. Dawley of the Organized Crime & Gang Unit. More details on the OCDETF program's battle against the dark underbelly of America's drug trade can be found at the Justice Department's website.
