ATLANTA, July 14 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Investigation Atlanta Field Office issued the following press release:
ATHENS, Ga. - A Georgia inmate and a co-conspirator were sentenced to federal prison today for trafficking fentanyl and a synthetic designer drug from China into the state resulting from a Homeland Security Task Force investigation led by FBI and the United States Postal Inspection Service.
"The defendants took part in an international drug trafficking scheme from behind bars, moving fentanyl and other dangerous drugs from China into Southwest Georgia," said U.S. Attorney William R. "Will" Keyes. "Our office, in collaboration with law enforcement, is dedicated to dismantling criminal organizations, ...