CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cleveland man whose network of drug dealers sold 42,000 fentanyl pills in Lorain County was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison.
Ronald Whittaker, 32, obtained the blue pills, made to look like prescription pills, in kilogram quantities and distributed them through a middleman to street dealers in Lorain and Elyria.
U.S. District Judge Charles Fleming handed down the sentence, the mandatory minimum, and ordered Whittaker forfeit $4,590 in drug money and three guns, including an assault rifle, which investigators found during a raid of Whittaker’s home…