United States Drug Enforcement Administration

(BUFFALO, NY) - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) New York Division, announced that a federal grand jury has returned a 16-count indictment charging Tyrone Green, 24, and Brennen Bryant, Jr., 25, both of Buffalo, NY, with possession with intent to distribute 10 grams or more of a fentanyl analogue, as well as heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a $5,000,000 fine. 

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Timothy C. Lynch and Seth T. Molisani, who is handling the case, stated that the charges in indictment and previously complaints stem from an investigation into an overdose death that occurred in Hamburg, NY on March 26, 2018. Through text messages on the decedent’s cellular telephone, detectives with the Hamburg Police Department and Special Agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration identified Green and Bryant as the decedent’s suppliers. Law enforcement officers then set up a controlled purchase of fentanyl from Green who was arrested when he arrived to sell the fentanyl. 

Subsequently, the investigation uncovered that between October 2017, and January 2018, the New York State Police made numerous controlled purchases of butyryl fentanyl, fentanyl, cocaine, and heroin from both defendants. 

The indictment is the result of an investigation by the Hamburg Police Department, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the New York State Police, and the Orchard Park Police Department.

The fact that a defendant has been charged with a crime is merely an accusation and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.