CT: Prosecutors: Stamford man sold fake oxycodone pills on dark web

Stamford Advocate –

STAMFORD — A city man admitted to trafficking counterfeit oxycodone pills that mimicked the effects of fentanyl during a court appearance on Tuesday, federal prosecutors said.

Vincent Decaro, 31, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of fentanyl analogues. An analogue is a drug that can mimic the effects of another, so a fentanyl analogue would give a person effects similar to ingesting fentanyl.

Decaro was released on a $50,000 bond pending sentencing, which is scheduled for Sept. 10.

Decaro and an associate bought fentanyl analogues from suppliers in China and pressed it into counterfeit oxycodone pills in Decaro’s West Hill Circle home in Stamford, prosecutors said. The individuals then sold the drug on the dark web, prosecutors said.

David Reichard, who briefly lived at Decaro’s Stamford home, is accused of helping to press pills and mail them to customers, prosecutors said.

During a court-authorized search of Decaro’s home on April 3, 2018, law enforcement officers found numerous pills with about 330 grams of fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl, 40 grams of fentanyl analogues in powder form, three pill presses, instructions on how to prepare the fentanyl analogue carfentanil, a hazardous material suit, a gas/respirator-type mask and several U.S. Postal Service envelopes, according to prosecutors.

When investigators searched Decaro’s home, he was in Europe.

On Sept. 21, 2018, Decaro and one of his associates were arrested by Albanian State Police while trying to cross the border from Albania to Kosovo.

When police searched the apartment in Tirana where they had been staying, prosecutors said they found alprazolam, fentanyl and other controlled substances, tools and dyes for pressing pills and instructions on synthesizing fentanyl.

Reichard, whose attorney said he was arrested in Stamford, pleaded guilty to a related charge in September 2019 and awaits sentencing.

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