INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A federal judge has sentenced 11 people for their roles in an armed trafficking ring responsible for bringing “hundreds of thousands” of fentanyl pills and several kilograms of meth into central Indiana.
Prosecutors say the ring was led by Jaraughn Bertram, who was killed in Mexico in 2024. Through his trafficking organization, meth and fentanyl were brought in from Arizona to Indianapolis, Anderson, and Muncie.
Bertram worked with Christopher Miller of Indianapolis to utilize couriers to get the drugs from a contact in Arizona and fly them to Indy, concealing the drugs in their checked luggage. Drugs were also shipped to Indy through U.S. mail…