BOSTON — A Rockland man accused of mailing synthetic opioids hidden in snack bags to customers across the country has been charged in federal court in Boston in a second overdose death, the U.S. attorney's office in Massachusetts said Tuesday.

Jaden Zion Andre, 23, was charged in a superseding indictment with a second count of drug distribution resulting in death, involving a woman in Slippery Rock, Pa., prosecutors said. Andre was indicted in August on eight counts of drug distribution, including one count tied to the death of a person in Las Vegas in April 2025.

According to charging documents, Andre ran a Telegram channel called "MontanaSnacksLLC" and a Proton Mail account called "SnackSeason" that he used to communicate with customers, and he shipped the drugs through the U.S. mail concealed in snack bags.

Prosecutors said a package shipped through "SnackSeason" was mailed Oct. 1, 2025, from a post office in Lowell and delivered two days later to a Pennsylvania woman who had asked for a narcotics sample. She was found dead three days after it arrived. A substance recovered at the scene tested positive for cychlorphine, a synthetic opioid related to the controlled substance brorphine, and messages on her phone linked her to the SnackSeason account, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors also said Andre mailed cychlorphine from a Worcester post office to an undercover officer on Aug. 2, 2025, and that his operation continued through May, with packages linked to overdose deaths in Florida and Georgia that remain under investigation.

The charge of drug distribution resulting in death carries a mandatory minimum of 20 years and up to life in prison.

The charges are allegations, and Andre is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

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