L.I. dealer gets 22 years for selling fentanyl that killed ex-cop
A man of Long Island was sentenced to 22 years in prison for having sold fentanyl who killed a former police officer, the Ministry of Justice announced on Wednesday.
Ryan Mueller, 33, from Lynbrook, pleaded guilty last December to a fentanyl distribution leader causing death, said the federal.
“Ryan Mueller’s decision to take and distribute fentanyl lacé [counterfeit] The pills resulted in the death of a user without mistrust who thought he was taking a legitimate pharmaceutical pill, “said DEA agent Frank Tarentino in a press release.
The victim was identified as a former 49 -year -old cop who was found dead at his home in Elmont in December 2022. Mueller was arrested in April 2024, and the investigators said that he was operating a massive drug distribution operation.
In the fatal case in Elmont, the fentanyl which killed the ex-fop was pressed in a pill intended to appear as oxycodone, said the federal. When the agents made a descent into Mueller’s residence, they found a press press, “several kilos of fentanyl” and other drugs, including heroin, cocaine and oxycodone.
“Mueller has exploited a massive and deadly program of fentanyl,” said Brooklyn US lawyer Joseph Nocella. “He built presses of pills the size of a sales machine, had pounds of fentanyl and millions of false and deadly pharmaceutical pills.”
In February 2025, the federalum made a descent into a building linked to Mueller and found “about 3.4 million false pharmaceutical pills, including false oxycodone which contained fentanyl, false pills of Xanax, more than 300,000 Quaaludes pills and another 600 grams of fentanyl in the form of a brick”.
