Fentanyl Sentencing in Alaska | Anchorage News

A Fairbanks woman, Samantha Pearson, received a 21-year federal prison sentence for selling fentanyl that killed Adam Sakkinen in 2022 — a case that’s part of a massive Alaska drug ring investigation indicting over 60 people. The judge ordered her to pay restitution and called her actions “poisoning,” noting she knew the same batch had already revived someone else. Before sentencing, Sakkinen’s grieving family rallied outside court, sharing heart-wrenching statements and videos of his young nieces and nephews missing him. Pearson apologized, but the tragedy remains: Sakkinen, battling heroin addiction, bought fentanyl from her, died hours later after an accident, and despite 6 Narcan doses and 11 days on life support, he didn’t survive. This sentence is meant as a stark warning to others in the drug trade.

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