Alaska Woman Sentenced for Fentanyl Trafficking

0:00It's April 24th. This is Anchorage News today, AI-powered stories from your city. A 51-year-old woman from Savonga, Alaska just got hit with a 10-year prison sentence for trying to flood her tiny village with over 7,000 fentanyl pills. Back in December 2022, cops spotted a shady package headed to her post office box and found more than 3,000 of those deadly. Pills inside. A few weeks later, they nabbed another one with over 4,000 pills. That small community of just 835 people dodged a bullet, but the sheer volume could have wiped out the whole village population. 8 times over, according to prosecutors, investigators linked her to a big-time drug ring leader named Heraklio Sanchez Rodriguez, who was running texts and calls from Mexico all the way to Alaska Suppliers. In February 2023, a third package slipped through on February 13, but her chats proved she knew the first two got busted. Sealing her fate in this trafficking plot.