RANDOLPH — A 36-year-old Randolph man walked into federal court in Boston on Wednesday and admitted to running a fentanyl and cocaine operation out of two houses stocked with loaded handguns, pressed blue pills, and — sitting in the basement of one — a kilogram press for cutting wholesale product.
The kilogram press and drug-cutting materials recovered by federal agents. Photo: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts.
Cocaine and methamphetamine were also found in one of the bedrooms. The basement told the fuller story: a kilogram press, a respirator mask, digital scales, plastic bags and bottles of cutting powder — the standard toolkit of anyone chopping and repackaging wholesale product for street sale.
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Another Harvard Street Gang plea
Mendes joins a growing list of the gang's Randolph and Brockton affiliates now folding under the weight of the same December raid. Co-defendant Adonis Graham, a 34-year-old Boston man, was sentenced last week to 46 months in federal prison after agents found roughly a kilo of cocaine, two loaded firearms and $2,000 cash sitting inside otherwise empty kitchen cabinets in a co-defendant's luxury Dorchester apartment. Another co-defendant, Giovany Fouyolle, drew 10 years back in June.
Federal complaints were unsealed against seven defendants in the case in February 2026.
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What Mendes faces
The distribution charge alone carries up to 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine. The firearms count — the machinegun-converted Glock, the fentanyl pills stacked in the same bedroom — brings a mandatory minimum of five years and up to life, running consecutive to any other prison term the judge hands down.
Judge Brian E. Murphy scheduled sentencing for Oct. 5, 2026.
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