Opinion ID: 4203977
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Heading: The 2011 Robbery

Text: Monteiro first became friendly with fellow Boston-area drug trafficker Joseph Guarneri in 2009, and Guarneri began selling him oxycodone. Eventually, Monteiro told Guarneri that he could supply him pills at a better price. Soon after, the buyer-seller - 2 - relationship flipped and Guarneri began purchasing batches of fifty to one hundred oxycodone pills from Monteiro to resell. Guarneri then began travelling to Florida to purchase larger quantities of oxycodone from another supplier. He eventually introduced two other Boston-area drug traffickers, the brothers Stanley and Joshua Gonsalves, to his Florida supplier. After Stanley Gonsalves purchased a large batch of pills from Guarneri's supplier, he asked Guarneri to set up another purchase. Guarneri and Monteiro responded to this request by formulating a scheme to rob the Gonsalves brothers. Guarneri told Stanley Gonsalves that he could secure 10,000 oxycodone pills in exchange for $225,000. On May 13, 2011 Guarneri lured the Gonsalves brothers to Monteiro's home to execute the purported drug purchase. When the Gonsalves brothers arrived, Guarneri brought Stanley into Monteiro's home, while Joshua remained in his brother's blue Mercedes SUV with another associate and approximately $225,000 in cash. Inside the home, Stanley told Monteiro that he wanted to see the pills so that he could examine and count them. Monteiro told Stanley that he would not show him the pills until Stanley showed him the $225,000. Stanley agreed, and sent Guarneri out to his car to fetch his brother Joshua and the money. After Guarneri reentered the home with Joshua and the money, two other accomplices who had been lying-in-wait -- Tavares - 3 - Bonnett and Michael Fula -- drew their guns and trained them on the Gonsalves brothers. Initially, Stanley refused to hand over the cash to Monteiro. To overcome this resistance, Bonnett hit Stanley on the side of the head with his gun. Stanley then handed the money over to Monteiro and his accomplices. At Monteiro's instruction, Guarneri again went outside to the Gonsalves vehicle to secure any weapons the brothers might have brought with them. After Guarneri found a gun in the vehicle, Monteiro, Bonnett, Fula, and Stanley all rushed out of the house, and Guarneri handed the weapon to Monteiro. Disarmed, the Gonsalves brothers got into their Mercedes and drove away. At that point, four other individuals who had been hiding in the house rushed out, jumped into a parked Volvo, and sped off in the same direction as the Mercedes. Eventually, the Volvo passed the Gonsalves brothers' Mercedes, and the Mercedes rammed the Volvo off the road. Meanwhile, Monteiro, Guarneri, Bonnett, and Fula traveled to the home of Monteiro's grandmother, where they divided the proceeds of the robbery. Monteiro kept most of the money. Guarneri collected $70,000, and the remaining cash was split between Bonnett and Fula.