A Hagerstown, Md. man will spend more than a decade behind bars for his involvement in distributing hundreds of grams of fentanyl in the area, which authorities say led to the deaths of two Waynesboro men. 

A U.S. District judge sentenced Antoine Jamel Henderson, 35, to 14 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release, according to a statement from the Franklin County District Attorney’s Office. 

The plea agreement stated Henderson conspired with others from at least 2017 through January 2018 to distribute at least 280 grams of the drug in Washington County in Maryland, which the statement said is enough to kill most of theresidents there. Franklin County has just a few thousand people than its Maryland neighbor, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.  

As little as two milligrams can be a lethal dose. 

The release said he also admitted the drug trafficking organization he supervised sold fentanyl that resulted in both fatal and non-fatal overdoses, including two which killed Marc Brumbaugh, 27, and Nathan Bolden, 31, both of Waynesboro. 

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Bolden and Brumbaugh died within a few months of each other in 2017, Public Opinion previous reported. Brumbaugh was found dead of an overdose on April 22, 2017, at a home on South Potomac Street. Bolden’s wife found him dead around 4 a.m. Aug. 16, 2017, on the floor of their bedroom on Brown Street. 

Both men died after taking substances they purchased in Hagerstown, according to court documents in their respective cases. 

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Between August and September 2017, investigators conducted at least six controlled purchases of either fentanyl or crack cocaine from Henderson or his co-defendant. Although these purchases were supposed to be heroin, lab results showed the substances were in fact fentanyl, according to the plea agreement. 

Authorities executed search warrants more than a year later on Jan. 17, 2018 at two locations and three vehicles in Henderson’s drug trafficking organization. 

At Henderson’s stash house on Atlantic Drive in Hagerstown, agents recovered 80.22 grams of fentanyl in the bottom compartment of a Coca-Cola vending machine in the garage. In addition, they also found 9-millimeter ammunition, a drug press, digital scales, drug packaging equipment, plastic bags containing fentanyl residue, cellular phones and other drug paraphernalia.

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While searching his primary residence on Lantern Lane in Hagerstown, authorities discovered additional cellular phones, a currency counter, jewelry and a garage opener for the garage at the stash house.

Police obtained search warrants for the 28 cell phones recovered from the house and cars, as well as for the DVD from the surveillance system at the stash house. The release stated Henderson’s iPhone had notes tracking law enforcement surveillance. 

“Henderson will now spend 14 years in federal prison, where there is no parole – ever. Drug traffickers are on notice that dealing in fentanyl increases their odds of federal prosecution and federal prison,” said United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, Robert K. Hur. 

Hur recognized Franklin County District Attorney Matt Fogal, the Waynesboro Police Department, the Franklin County Drug Task Force, the Franklin County Coroner’s Office, the Washington County Special Response Team and the Maryland Natural Resources Police for their assistance in the investigation and prosecution.

“Law enforcement in Franklin County is very grateful to the outside agencies for working together in pursuit of justice for our lost victims,” Fogal added. “While much of our law enforcement time is now spent assisting those who suffer from the disease of addiction, those who solely profit from and prey upon our suffering victims are uniquely villainous.” 

 

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