Seven people have been sentenced in federal court for trafficking hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills into Minnesota, according to the United States Attorney’s Office in the District of Minnesota.
The office states that Latre Lamont Anderson, Khianna Rose Clark-Strong, Jacquez O’Neal Fondern, Rozell Antonio Grainger, Issac Oneal Maiden, Olivia Mae Erin Martineau-Johns and Jeremy James Nelson-Caban, Jr. were part of a group distributing fentanyl across Minnesota, including the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation. It further states that from summer 2022 to summer 2023, Anderson, Grainger and Maiden traveled from Minneapolis to Phoenix, Arizona, to get large amounts of fentanyl, which they mailed to the Twin Cities area, often hidden in toys or household items
“They would travel back to Minneapolis, and then distribute the fentanyl through various drug-traffickers, including Martineau-Johns. Martineau-Johns also obtained fentanyl for distribution from Nelson-Caban and Fondern, and Clark-Strong assisted Martineau-Johns with distributing the fentanyl,” explained a release from the office…