Federal Judge Douglas R. Cole on March 4 sentenced 38-year-old Quinell Hadden to 18 years in federal prison after prosecutors said he ran a wide-reaching fentanyl trafficking network that moved hundreds of kilograms of fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine across the Cincinnati area. The sentence, imposed in federal court in downtown Cincinnati, capped a multi-year investigation into an operation that authorities say ran from January 2020 until Hadden’s arrest in 2023.
Court Filings Paint Hadden as the Operation’s Leader
Court filings in a related federal case describe surveillance, intercepted communications and stash-house activity that investigators say tied multiple distributors to a single Cincinnati-based organization. The filings identify…..