By Tiffany Williams –
In Boston, MA, federal prosecutors say a drug pipeline moving deadly narcotics across the country and into Massachusetts has been exposed, with four men now indicted in what authorities describe as a multi-state conspiracy tied to kilogram-level trafficking.
A federal grand jury in Boston returned indictments against Alexander Pineda Nunez, Angel Luis Cedeno Moni, Raymond Cedeno Calderon, and Adrian Pena Rodriguez, charging them with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances including fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine. Adrian Pena Rodriguez is also charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
Pineda Nunez, 32, of Methuen, MA, and Angel Luis Cedeno Moni, 31, unlawfully residing in Lawrence, MA, are identified in charging documents as leaders of a drug trafficking organization that allegedly moved large quantities of narcotics into Massachusetts using the U.S. mail and other carriers. Investigators allege the operation was not small-scale, but structured, coordinated, and persistent.
Authorities say the group arranged for kilogram quantities of cocaine to be mailed from Puerto Rico to residential addresses across northeastern Massachusetts. Once those packages arrived, Pineda Nunez and his co-conspirators allegedly tracked the shipments in real time and quickly retrieved them from the delivery locations, sometimes hitting multiple addresses in a single day to secure the drugs before detection.
Law enforcement officials say that system did not go unnoticed. Multiple packages tied to the organization were intercepted, including one seized directly from Adrian Pena Rodriguez, and those packages were found to contain multiple kilograms of cocaine.
But the alleged operation extended far beyond Massachusetts and Puerto Rico. According to charging documents, Pineda Nunez and Cedeno Moni also traveled to Arizona and California, where they allegedly shipped fentanyl and methamphetamine back east using the U.S. mail. Between August and September 2025, six packages allegedly sent from California by the pair were intercepted, each containing multiple kilograms of fentanyl and methamphetamine.
The scope of the alleged conspiracy shows a network moving drugs coast to coast, relying on shipping systems, coordination, and speed to distribute narcotics into Massachusetts communities.
Three of the defendants—Pineda Nunez, Cedeno Moni and Pena Rodriguez—were arrested and made their initial appearance in Boston federal court on April 7, 2026. They remain in custody pending detention hearings. Raymond Cedeno Calderon, listed as residing in Clifton, NJ, is currently in custody in Tennessee and is expected to appear in federal court in Boston at a later date.
The charges lay out what federal authorities say is a coordinated effort to move multiple kilograms of some of the most dangerous drugs in circulation today, using methods designed to avoid detection while maximizing distribution.
What happens next will unfold in federal court, but the allegations already paint a picture of a drug trafficking organization operating across state lines, leveraging the mail system, and moving large-scale quantities of fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine into Massachusetts.