A Massachusetts man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in an oxycodone conspiracy.
According to the Massachusetts Department of Justice, U.S. District Court Judge Denise J. Casper sentenced 37-year-old Michael Atwood of Carver to 35 months in prison and three years of supervised release. In November 2024, Atwood pled guilty in federal court in Boston to conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute oxycodone tablets. Campbell was indicted by a federal grand jury in August 2023, along with five other coconspirators.
Between about November 2022 and June 2023, Atwood obtained oxycodone tablets from co-defendant John Campbell and transferred them to others. The defendant got from Campbell hundreds to thousands of oxycodone tablets at a time. During a search of Atwood’s home on July 12, 2023, authorities seized over $63,000 in cash.
Campbell was convicted in January 2025 to four years in jail, followed by three years of supervised release.
The announcement was made by United States Attorney Leah B. Foley; Stephen Belleau, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New England Field Division; Colonel Geoffrey D. Noble, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police; Thomas Demeo, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, Boston Field Office; and Ketty Larco-Ward, Inspector in Charge of the US Postal Inspection Service’s Boston Division. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the United States Coast Guard Investigative Service, the Barnstable County Sheriff’s Office, and the Barnstable, Dennis, Bourne, Mashpee, Yarmouth, Sandwich, and Falmouth Police Departments all gave special assistance. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys John T. Mulcahy and Samuel R. Feldman of the Criminal Division, together with Alexandra Amrhein of the Asset Forfeiture Unit.
This initiative is part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force activity. OCDETF uses a prosecutor-led, intelligence-driven, multi-agency approach to identify, disrupt, and dismantle the most powerful criminal organizations posing a threat to the United States. Additional information on the OCDETF Program is available at https://www.justice.gov/OCDETF.
