High-level Bristol County narcotics trafficker sentenced in Fall River court after several drugs, cash, seized

A 38-year-old high-level Taunton narcotics trafficker was sentenced recently to state prison, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn announced.

Daniel St. Pierre pleaded guilty in Fall River Superior Court on Thursday to indictments charging him with trafficking fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine. He was sentenced to serve five to eight years.

On June 20, 2023, the Taunton Police Street Crimes Unit executed a search warrant at 57 Church Street, a sober home in the City of Taunton.  The target of the search warrant was St. Pierre, one of the sober home residents.  When the police established surveillance of the sober home, they saw St. Pierre exit the sober home while on a cell phone.  He sat on the front stairs of the building when a woman walked through the Taunton Green and onto the front stairs.  The woman sat next to St. Pierre, and the detectives watched him hand her something.  She immediately put an item into her mouth and washed it down with a drink.  Believing the woman had just consumed narcotics, which she obtained from St. Pierre, the detectives confronted both parties.  The woman told the police that she had just purchased three Adderall pills from the defendant.  She ingested one of the pills and showed the police that she had the other two pills in a cigarette pack.  Those two pills were seized, and St. Pierre was placed into custody.

St. Pierre was led to his room in the sober house.  Inside the room, police recovered the following items:  numerous tablets which were tested and found to be 564 grams of methamphetamine; a white rock like substance which was tested and found to be 24 grams of cocaine and 584 tablets which were tested and found to be 46 grams of fentanyl.  In addition, the police located several “hide cans” used to secrete the narcotics, plastic bags, three digital scales and $11,126 in cash.  In addition, the two pills seized from the woman were also tested and found to be methamphetamine. 

The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Jason Mohan and the state prison sentence was imposed by Judge Raffi Yessayan.

“The defendant was selling large amounts of very dangerous drugs that are upending communities and ruining people’s lives. The sentence is appropriate to protect the public,” District Attorney Quinn said.