A federal jury has convicted a Spokane man of supplying fentanyl pills that prosecutors say led to two fatal overdoses in Skagway, tightening the legal net around a small Alaska town hit hard by the opioid crisis.
Jurors found 34-year-old Jacob Cotton guilty this week of distributing counterfeit fentanyl pills tied to the deaths, after prosecutors said he mailed the drugs from Washington state to the Southeast Alaska community.
GUILTY: A jury found a Washington man guilty of distributing fentanyl that resulted in two overdose deaths in Alaska. Jacob Cotton, 34, was convicted. — DEA Seattle Field Division (@DEASEATTLEDiv) March 26, 2026…