He mailed fentanyl pills from California to Millcreek Township in May 2020 At sentencing, judge says Gutierrez was a dealer, despite his claims otherwise After it was placed in the U.S. mail in California in May 2020, a package containing as many as 3,000 fentanyl pills was pulled from delivery before it reached its destination: a house in Millcreek Township. Postal inspectors intercepted the parcel, launching an investigation that has sent the shipper to federal prison for nearly seven years. The shipper, Victor D. Gutierrez, 48, claimed at his sentencing in U.S. District Court in Erie on Thursday that his opioid addiction fueled his involvement in multiple mailed shipments of large amounts of illegal drugs from California to the Erie area in 2019 and 2020, culminating with the fentanyl pills.