A 74-year-old woman who admitted to running a significant interstate drug trafficking operation was sentenced to probation rather than prison time in federal court on Monday.
Patricia Parker, an Austin, Texas native currently residing in Massachusetts, appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Melissa R. DuBose on November 25. Parker was sentenced to two years of probation, with a special mandate requiring her to serve the first nine months in home confinement.
The sentencing follows a guilty plea Parker entered on May 15, 2025, for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and distribution of more than 310 grams of the synthetic opioid. According to Acting United States Attorney Sara Miron Bloom, that quantity of fentanyl represents approximately 150,000 lethal doses…