Michael Heyman
176:44 - 177:17
“the reason for that is that the profit margin is so incredible for the drug traffickers to push this poison into our rural communities that they have a financial incentive to keep doing it no matter what the cost. And so we are on the front line. And like I mentioned, that one case that's ongoing with 69 defendants from a prison gang member in California that started this drug trafficking organization. And we will continue to do everything conceivable to stop that flow of fentanyl into our communities.”
- Speaker
- Michael Heyman
- Timestamp
- 176:44 – 177:17
- Transcript
- Facebook video by Native Federation
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
And you name it, the communities that we've done, that we found these narcotics fall coming in, to a point where there's enough of the fentanyl being trafficked that it's enough to kill every community multiple times over. And the reason for that is that the profit margin is so incredible for the drug traffickers to push this poison into our rural communities that they have a financial incentive to keep doing it no matter what the cost. And so we are on the front line. And like I mentioned, that one case that's ongoing with 69 defendants from a prison gang member in California that started this drug trafficking organization. And we will continue to do everything conceivable to stop that flow of fentanyl into our communities.
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