MINNEAPOLIS (KFGO) – A North Dakota man has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to 20 years in prison for distributing fentanyl, which resulted in the accidental fatal fentanyl poisoning of a man in the Pipestone, Minnesota, area.
Court documents say, Jake Northern distributed large and small amounts of fentanyl pills to users and distributors across Southwestern Minnesota. Northern operated his distribution network from Sioux Falls.
“Fentanyl has stolen lives, fractured families, and destabilized entire communities across Minnesota,” said U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen. “Northern treated addiction as an opportunity and people as profit. This office will continue to pursue federal sentences for traffickers whose actions bring deadly fentanyl into Minnesota communities. We extend our condolences to the victim’s family, friends, and community and will continue to work with partners around the state to find, investigate, and prosecute those who bring this lethal drug into our communities.”
In April of 2023 Northern sold fentanyl pills to a person that consumed the pills and died and died due to fentanyl poisoning.
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