Keon Leary, 45, was sentenced to 9 to 10 years in state prison after pleading guilty to various drug and gun charges the day he was set to go on trial, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Leary, who has a criminal record dating to 1988, still faces trial on separate gun and drug charges for an arrest in Roxbury while he was out on bail for the charges he pleaded guilty to this week, court records show.
According to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, which called him a "major player" in the Mass and Cass drug market, Leary pleaded guilty Tuesday to carrying a firearm without a license, 3rd offense, carrying a loaded firearm without a license, possession of a firearm while committing a felony, trafficking cocaine over 200 grams, trafficking fentanyl over 36 grams and distributing a class B substance, subsequent offense for his arrest on Aug. 12, 2022, outside Hope House, a drug-treatment facility on Farnham Street.
Officers were looking for Leary specifically after receiving a tip that he often parked near Hope House and sold drugs, the DA's office reports.
Officers arrested Leary after observing a drug transaction on the corner of Gerard Street. Upon Leary’s arrest, officers seized two backpacks containing 248.18 grams of cocaine, 22.22 grams of fentanyl, 15.57 grams of fluorofentanyl, and .43 grams of valerylfentanyl. Officers also recovered a black Taurus PT22 loaded with nine rounds and $8,994 in cash.
On Nov. 10, 2023, Boston Police reported, officers arrested Leary on new drug and gun charges as part of an investigation on Homestead Street in Roxbury. Leary and an alleged accomplice were arrested on charges related to the "approximately 95 grams of Fentanyl, 237 grams of Crack Cocaine, 67 various pills, 6 plastic bags of marijuana, and $4,033 in U.S. currency," police said, adding Leary was also charged for the Sig Sauer P365 with 11 rounds in the magazine officers found.
A trial date on those charges has yet to be set. At a hearing on Tuesday, the judge in the case agreed to give prosecutors until May 13, to let them appeal a ruling in November to suppress evidence in the case.
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NOICE
By dan r
Thu, 02/20/2025 - 4:29pm
Bye bye lowlife
What goodbye?
By Will LaTulippe
Thu, 02/20/2025 - 5:52pm
He'll be out when he's 55, because the community has no heart, no brain, and no gumption.
He's been doing this since he was 8, for Chrissakes.* He's going right back to this when he's out, because he never learned any better. Best move at this point isn't non-life sentence jail.
*1988? 1998? Typo?
Your Investments Murder People
By GinaD
Thu, 02/20/2025 - 6:50pm
If you had heart, you'd immediately divest. It's only bad if Will found no way to profit off it.
This is why we need Long Island
By chaosjake
Thu, 02/20/2025 - 9:30pm
Nobody hangs around the Long Island treatment centers with a backpack full of fentanyl.
Both models are needed
By Transphobia Watch
Fri, 02/21/2025 - 1:11pm
There is evidence for inpatient treatment or partial hospitalization that gets people away from familiar surroundings and out of their familiar routine to regroup without triggers and temptations immediately available.
This is however only accessible to people who either are so far at rock bottom that they have absolutely nothing left in their lives, or people whose situation is such that they can take a few weeks off with resources in place to watch their kids and pay their rent.
Most people can only access treatment if they're able to stop in after work or on their lunch break.
What we need is more availability of highly skilled services. Experienced and skilled clinicians in general treat people like fellow humans, with understanding and flexibility, while also setting limits as needed. People who are not as skilled, who disproportionately tend to be working at Medicaid-only programs, operate on a carceral model where folks are constantly punished for being human. There is such a massive difference between the way people are treated in the different programs, and obviously in their resultant success rates. Single-payer healthcare would do wonders for this and many other issues.
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