Fentanyl trafficker gets 47 months after Burlington chase
BURLINGTON, Vt. (ABC22/FOX44) – A man was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to possessing fentanyl with intent to distribute.
Kajuan Woods, 36, appeared before a federal judge for the District of Vermont after several police encounters last year. He was sentenced to 47 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release.
According to court records, Woods was in an apartment on St. Paul Street in Burlington when law enforcement searched the place as part of an ongoing investigation in January of 2024. Woods was wearing a satchel at the time which contained nine grams of fentanyl and over $1,100 in cash.
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Woods was involved in a second incident in May 2024 when South Burlington police encountered him and a woman passed out in a vehicle while it was running. The vehicle was found to contain nearly an ounce of suspected cocaine, a stolen Apple MacBook Pro, and over $2,400 in stolen clothing as well as a partially loaded magazine for a gun. Woods provided a false name to police during the incident.
In a third event, Burlington police responded to reports of a man threatening a woman with a gun, and found Woods with a woman in a car. Woods ran from the police through residential backyards, but they quickly caught up with him and arrested him on a federal warrant. At the time, he had a bullet in his pocket and over an ounce of suspected cocaine, while in the rental car he had been using were a pistol and unspecified amounts of suspected cocaine and fentanyl with $3,200 in cash.
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Acting U.S. Attorney thanked police for their effort in detaining Woods, while warning that 'individuals who possess distribution quantities of deadly controlled substances, thousands of dollars in cash, and firearms pose a danger to the communities where they sell drugs, to lawenforcement officers, and to themselves.'
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