{"id":298001,"date":"2026-10-02T00:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T00:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298001\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T00:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T00:42:07","slug":"four-philly-men-charged-for-dealing-fentanyl-labeled-hot-sauce-connected-to-at-least-one-fatal-overdose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298001\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Philly men charged for dealing fentanyl labeled \u2018Hot Sauce,\u2019 connected to at least one fatal overdose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Four Philadelphia men have been charged in a new indictment from the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania with distributing fentanyl that is connected to at least one fatal overdose.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office called them the Hot Sauce Drug Trafficking Organization \u2014 35-year-old Jose Gonzalez, 46-year-old Jamie Velez, 38-year-old Oswaldo Merced-Rivera, and 32-year-old Anyelo Rondon-Herrera \u2014 and all four were previously indicted in June on charges of distribution of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p>The superseding indictment filed this week alleged that fentanyl dealt by Gonzalez, Velez and Merced-Rivera contributed to the death of at least one person who used \u2018HOT SAUCE\u2019 branded fentanyl on Aug. 7, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said the group stamped their bags of fentanyl with the label \u2018HOT SAUCE,\u2019 and were selling at least 200 bundles a week out of locations in Kensington, Mayfair, Holmesburg, Tacony and Olney.<\/p>\n<p>A defense attorney representing one of the men declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, the four men face up to life in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Four Philadelphia men have been charged in a new indictment from the U.S. Attorney\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31,5876,12313,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-298001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-crime","tag-drug-trafficking","tag-fentanyl","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}