GREEN BAY, WI — Three Green Bay man are sentenced in federal court for separate cases of attempting to distribute fentanyl disguised as Percocet. 26-year-old Bahron Berkley-Dolphin is sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment and seven years’ supervised release after pleading guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute Fentanyl and Possessing a Firearm in Furtherance of Drug Trafficking. That’s in connection with a May 2022 arrest in which Berkley-Dolphin sold fentanyl pills labeled as Percocet to an informant with the Brown County Drug Task Force. Berkley-Dolphin had obtained four-thousand fentanyl-laced pill from a source in Arizona prior to his arrest. D-E-A testing found that 60-percent of the pills contained lethal amounts of fentanyl.
In an unrelated case, a pair of brothers from Green Bay are convicted of intent to deliver fentanyl. A federal jury convicts 24-year-old Don A.K. James, Jr. and 34-year-old Frederick L. Brewer for Conspiracy to Distribute Fentanyl, Possessing Fentanyl With Intent to Distribute, and Distributing Fentanyl. According to evidence presented at trial, Brewer sold fentanyl pills to an informant working with the Brown County Drug Task in January and February 2022. After the D-T-F arrested Brewer, they learned that James—Brewer’s brother—had negotiated with an Arizona-based source to buy thousands of counterfeit Percocet pills containing fentanyl. James flew to Arizona and bought at least 15,000 pills. James also sent a video to a large-scale buyer in the Green Bay area, which showed he had at least 19,000 pills to distribute. James faces at least ten years in prison and a maximum of life in prison. Brewer faces up to 30 years in prison.
