WILLIAMSTOWN, Vt. (WGGB/WSHM/WCAX) – Two men face federal drug charges after police on Wednesday executed simultaneous search and arrest warrants in Williamstown, Vermont, and Springfield, Massachusetts.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Vermont said Joseph Cadorette, 37, of Williamstown, Vermont, and Hussein Iman, 20, of Springfield, Massachusetts, face charges of conspiracy to distribute and distribution of fentanyl and cocaine base.
According to court records, Iman oversaw a drug trafficking organization that distributed cocaine base and fentanyl in Vermont between March 2024 and July 2024. People in the organization allegedly sold narcotics to undercover agents on several occasions.
“During one interaction, Iman boasted to an undercover agent about the potency of his raw fentanyl, conveying that it caused individuals to instantly overdose and that Narcan did not reverse the overdoses,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office explained in a statement.
Federal investigators said the organization’s drug distribution locations included Cadorette’s 14-acre property on Pleasant Street in Williamstown, Vermont. Undercover agents reportedly bought thousands of dollars worth of fentanyl from people in a camper at that property.
Search and arrest warrants were executed at Cadorette’s Vermont property, as well as Iman’s residence in Massachusetts on Wednesday. During the searches, prosecutors said several guns and suspected narcotics were seized.
Cadorette is due in U.S. District Court in Burlington on Thursday afternoon. A court appearance for Iman in U.S. District Court in Springfield is pending.