A 24-year-old North Shore drug runner and violent gang leader might not get out of prison until he’s in his 60s.

Armani “Shotz” Minier-Tejada, 24, was convicted by a federal grand jury last June on one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl, 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, cocaine, and other controlled substances; and charges of possession of firearms, including a machine gun, to further his gang’s aims, the Herald reported then.

On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton sentenced Ninier-Tejada to 40 years in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release.

Minier-Tejada was a big wig in the “Tiny Rascals Gangsters,” a drug-running operation seemingly run by young people who love to party and show off wads of cash and guns on social media. That is, when they weren’t using their pistols modified to go fully automatic — thus the machine gun charge — to shoot up the place and enforce their turf.

Other members of the Tiny Rascal’s gang who have gone down in the federal investigation that began in 2020 following concerns of increased shootings in the North Shore include Jaiir “Chino” Coleman, of Malden, Phillips “PHON C” Charles, and Marcus “Reckless” Carlisle.

The first such shooting was Nov. 11, 2019, when Chelsea police were dispatched for reports of shots fired on Tudor Street. At the scene, officers identified two people shot at and found a holographic sight attachment for a handgun, according to court records. Then came Alston Street in Somerville, where officers found 20 9 mm shell casings and four .380-caliber casings, the leftovers of a shooting officials said lit up the first and second floors of a three-story home but left its occupants uninjured.

The feds successfully connected at trial Minier-Tejeda to a number of shootings, including one in Cambridge in July 2020 in which he and Coleman showed up when some rivals were streaming a video calling the pair informers for the feds. Together, Minier-Tejeda and Coleman lit the place up with at least 30 rounds fired into the large crowd.

Coleman was a particular showoff and often got his girlfriend, Christina Bernbaum, in on the social media fun, like when she was pictured cooking up some crack while in a suggestive pose.

“Glock wit the switch yea packed up wit tool baby,” Coleman, of Malden, wrote as song lyrics in his phone, helping to ensure prosecutors convicted him on his own machine gun charge in February of 2022.

But crack wasn’t all the Tiny Rascals traded in, according to the various court case affidavits filed along with the complaints. They also sold fentanyl and meth up and down New England, specifically within Massachusetts and Bangor, Maine.

Minier-Tejeda, the feds say, served as the supplier for drug dealers in Maine. Altogether, the Tiny Rascals, the feds say, trafficked more than 10 kilos each of fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine from Massachusetts into Maine.