Bahron Berkley-Dolphin PC: Fox 11 Online
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — A Green Bay man was sentenced for selling fentanyl disguised as Percocet.
Bahron Berkley-Dolphin, 26, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and seven years of supervised release after pleading guilty to distributing fentanyl and possessing a firearm in the furtherance of drug trafficking.
Prosecutors say in May of 2022, investigators with the Brown County Drug Task Force stopped and arrested Berkley-Dolphin after he sold fentanyl pills to an informant. The fentanyl was in the form of counterfeit “Percocet” pills that Berkley-Dolphin obtained from illicit sources in Arizona.
In all, the Arizona source shipped 4,000 fake Percocet pills to Berkley-Dolphin in Wisconsin. At the time Berkley-Dolphin delivered fentanyl, he was a convicted felon and possessed a loaded 9mm pistol with an obliterated serial number, officials say.
In sentencing Berkley-Dolphin, Judge William Griesbach stressed that dealing fentanyl is dealing poison.
According to a recent report from the Drug Enforcement Administration, 6 in 10 pills tested at DEA Crime Labs contain a potentially lethal dose of fentanyl. In 2021, DEA determined that 40% of pills were potentially lethal, but by 2022 the fatal dosage increased to 60% of tested.
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