BOSTON — A Rockland man was sentenced Monday in federal court in Boston to 88 months in prison for conspiring to distribute fentanyl, the U.S. attorney's office for Massachusetts said.

Kerry Charlotin, 36, also known as "KG," was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Leo T. Sorokin, who also ordered four years of supervised release after his prison term. Charlotin pleaded guilty in July to one count of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl.

According to prosecutors, an investigation into Charlotin and co-conspirator Shaquylle Burden began in June 2025. Prosecutors said Charlotin worked with Burden and met repeatedly with a cooperating witness working with federal investigators to sell fentanyl in Brookline and Boston, and that the two men sold more than 280 grams of fentanyl, along with other drugs, over the course of the investigation.

Charlotin and Burden were arrested and charged in December 2025. Charlotin was found and arrested in South Carolina, prosecutors said. Searches of Charlotin and of several homes in Massachusetts turned up crack cocaine, a loaded 9mm pistol and about 131.5 grams of cocaine packed in plastic bags that someone had tried and failed to flush down a toilet, according to the U.S. attorney's office. Prosecutors said a gun was also found at Burden's home in Roslindale when he was arrested.

At the time of the offenses, Charlotin was on supervised release after serving a five-year federal prison sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, prosecutors said.

Burden was sentenced Oct. 19 to five years in prison for his role in the conspiracy.

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