Man Sentenced In Connection With Trafficking Oxycodone

WOBURN – Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan has announced that Steven Marcelin, 27, of Boston, has been sentenced in Middlesex Superior Court in connection with Oxycodone trafficking charges. Judge Thomas Billings sentenced Marcelin to eight years to eight years and one day on the charge of trafficking in more than 100 grams of Oxycodone and 18 months probation on the conspiracy charge to run from and after the committed sentence.

"As we deal with an increasing number of opiate deaths across the county, our multi-pronged approach which includes treatment, prevention and education, also focuses on aggressively stopping the flow of opiates and prosecuting those who are profiting through their sale," said District Attorney Ryan. “We know that the work in this criminal case will prevent these drugs from reaching individuals struggling with addiction."

Authorities arrested Marcelin in Woburn on November 2, 2011 after police had watched Marcelin pick up a package from the front porch of a home. The package later was found to contain a large amount of Oxycodone pills which the Massachusetts State Crime Laboratory determined was 105.79 grams of Oxycodone. The investigation was launched in this case in October 2011 when members of the United States Postal Service noticed a number of suspicious packages being shipped from Las Vegas, Nevada, to a home on Prospect Street in Woburn.

This case was investigated by Southern Middlesex Regional Drug Task Force, Massachusetts State Police, and the United States Postal Service.

The prosecutor assigned to this case is Assistant District Attorney Rachel Perlman.