DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News ) – A teen who authorities believe to be the top supplier connected to a series of deadly juvenile fentanyl overdoses in Carrollton and Flower Mound has pleaded guilty to a federal drug crime.
18-year-old Julio Gonzales Junior, also known as “J-Money”, admitted to receiving and selling 120 thousand counterfeit “M30” pills to other dealers and customers, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Dallas.
Prosecutors said he sold “K Packs” consisting of 1,000 pills each, including to at least one juvenile.
According to the release, a 16-year-old pill dealer identified Gonzales as his supplier. That teen delivered a 14-year-old girl who died of an overdose in December.
During a search of a home that Gonzales used to store drugs, investigators found thousands of fentanyl-laced pills in a microwave.
They also found a “partial kilogram of cocaine” in a food container, cash in a closet and guns “littered throughout the home.”
Gonzales is the eighth defendant charged in the investigation into 14 overdoses and four deaths to plead guilty.
He faces up to 40 years in prison on a charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl.
A sentencing date has not been announced.
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