LYNN — Four men from Lynn have been sentenced to prison for their involvement in manufacturing counterfeit Oxycodone, Adderall, and Xanax pills and distributing them across the country through darknet marketplaces, as well as the U.S. Postal Service.
Daniel John Blaney has been sentenced to 18 years and 4 months in prison, while Kenneth Emmanuel Lora has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Both David Robert Kable Jr. and Javier Alexander Bermudez are now facing 12-year sentences as well.
There were no records found in Essex County of the men’s criminal history.
The Office of the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia led the prosecution and has deemed this a “massive conspiracy” that led to “over a dozen fatal overdoses.” Court documents show that from 2022 to 2025, the men used industrial pill presses to manufacture the counterfeit drugs, which contained different substances, including fentanyl and N-pyrrolidino etonitazene (Pryo), which is around 20-40 times stronger than fentanyl, in the oxycodone pills and methamphetamine in the counterfeit Adderall pills. The Xanax pills had a synthetic benzodiazepine called Bromazolam.
There were at least 9,000 sales of pills, and the men received payment in the form of cryptocurrency from customers. Investigators found over 39 kilograms of controlled substances when they arrested Lora in New York on June 4, 2025. Later, on June 17, 2025, law enforcement searched a storage unit belonging to Bermudez and Blaney and found over 33 grams of crystal methamphetamine, as well as five industrial pill presses and pill press attachments that are used to imprint counterfeit pharmaceutical brandings onto pills. They also found 41 kilograms of binding material and manufacturing paraphernalia.
Blaney had tried to flee to both Canada and Thailand, but was ultimately taken into federal custody.
The case was investigated by both the FBI Washington Field Office and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service New York Division, as well as the New York City Police Department, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and Homeland Security Investigations.
The FBI Boston Field Office, DEA New England Division, and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts also assisted in the investigation, as did the Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs in Blaney’s return specifically.
