MINNEAPOLIS – A North Dakota man has pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 240 months’ imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, which resulted in the accidental fatal fentanyl poisoning of a young man in the Pipestone, Minnesota, area, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen.
According to court documents, Jake Noland Northern, aka “Jake Noal Northern,” admitted that from at least February 2023 through April 21, 2023, he knowingly and intentionally distributed pressed fentanyl pills to users and distributors across southwestern Minnesota. Northern operated his distribution network from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he sold both personal use and bulk quantities of fentanyl pills, including to individuals who further distributed the drugs in the Pipestone community.
On April 21, 2023, Northern sold pressed fentanyl pills to an individual for roughly $200. That evening, the victim consumed Northern’s fentanyl and subsequently died due to accidental fentanyl poisoning…