‘White Boy Pat’ sentenced by the drug ring in the header for almost 15 years

The drug ring sold an average of 800 grams of fentanyl per day and also participated in sex trafficking.
Saultz and his conspirators used violence, including a beating death, to control their operation.
Police confiscated more than $ 1.7 million in cash, numerous firearms and eight houses connected to the drug ring.

A man who, according to federal prosecutors, directed a drug ring that sold an average of 800 grams of fentanil a day in the Columbus area will spend more than two decades in federal prison for his crimes.

Patrick Saultz, 46, from the Italian village, He declared himself guilty in 2023 in the United States District Court For conspiracy to distribute and have with the intention of distributing controlled substances within 1,000 feet of a primary school, conspiracy to commit sexual trafficking and concealment of concealment money.

The judge of the United States District Court, Edmund Sargus, ordered Saultz to turn 264, 22 years old, in prison.

Sargus also ordered Saultz to lose the real estate detectives seized during the investigation, including a BMW 7 2019 series, a 1986 Buick Regal, a Harley Davidson Road Glide motorcycle, dozens of firearms, a rolex watch, more than $ 1.7 million in cash and eight homes.

Saultz was with the name of the street “White Boy Pat” and it was the Traffic ring co-leader. Federal prosecutors accused more than 20 people in relation to the company, which according to judicial records involved at least one person who died as a result of an overdose and the hit the death of a man during a drug dispute.

According to the judicial records, Saultz and others carried out the large -scale operation between 2008 and June 2022. The company involved bringing large amounts of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, oxycodone, alprazolam and marijuana to Columbus, which were then sold or used to force others to prostitution for the members of the company, the company’s members say.

Saultz sold heroin, cocaine and cocaine out of houses in Life Place and South Hague Street in the neighborhood of La Colina, but the organization involved the sale of drugs in more than 20 homes in Columbus, according to judicial records. Saultz and others would also sell large amounts of drugs to other traffickers in the region, which would take drugs to other places, including northern Ohio and Virginia Occidental.

In five days, according to judicial records, detectives intercepted more than 400 grams of fentanyl tied to sale in the Akron and Canton area.

The judicial records say that the detectives could determine that around 40 grams of fentanyl were sold every day of each of the drug houses that the organization supervised, which represents an average of at least 800 grams of sales of fentanyl per day in Columbus.

The dealers sold more than 14 kilograms of fentanil during the last year of operation of the organization and more than 50 grams of cocaine based on “conservative estimates”, according to judicial records.

Judicial records also say that most drug sales up to $ 18,000 per day were carried out from a house in the 500 block of South Burgess Avenue, about 1,000 feet from Burroughs Elementary School.

The company also carried out a sex traffic operation that required women who received drugs to participate in prostitution, to give their profits in exchange for places to stay or additional drugs to feed their ongoing addictions, according to judicial records.

To cover up illegal income, Saultz helped establish multiple false businesses that served as fronts to avoid detection, according to judicial records.

The detectives confiscated more than $ 1 million in cash of a storage unit and more than $ 100,000 in cash of Saultz’s house while executing search orders related to the case, according to judicial records.

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