A Montrealer faces life in prison in the United States after pleading guilty to exporting fentanyl to that country from his cell in Canada.
Posted at 12:58 p.m.
The US Department of Justice claims that fentanyl trafficking organized by Jason Joey Berry resulted in 15 overdoses in the United States, four of which proved fatal.
Berry, 39, pleaded guilty last Friday to conspiring to import and distribute fentanyl into the United States, a crime that US officials say resulted in serious bodily harm and even death.
US authorities say Berry, with the complicity of a fellow inmate, organized from a Canadian prison the distribution of fentanyl and similar products from Canada and China to the United States.
Berry was formally arrested by Canadian authorities in 2019 and extradited to North Dakota in 2021. He is due to be sentenced on January 17, 2023; the mandatory minimum sentence is life imprisonment.