Michael Heyman
175:58 - 176:14
“we have one that's been pending for a couple of years right now. That involves 69, 69 defendants, 69 individuals who have been charged for trafficking fentanyl to rural community, to our rural communities. Several of them have already pled guilty.”
- Speaker
- Michael Heyman
- Timestamp
- 175:58 – 176:14
- Transcript
- Facebook video by Native Federation
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
And again, it's an unfortunate word that we have to keep using when it comes to rural Alaska and our communities is fentanyl. And these are national statistics, but I can tell you, once you look at those national statistics, the picture is even more bleak in Alaska because our communities are so small. And I don't have a slide for it, but I'll tell you that when it comes to the number of cases and the volume of cases we're dealing with fentanyl trafficking, we have one that's been pending for a couple of years right now. That involves 69, 69 defendants, 69 individuals who have been charged for trafficking fentanyl to rural community, to our rural communities. Several of them have already pled guilty.
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