NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 7 -- The U.S. Justice Department's Drug Enforcement Administration's New Orleans Field Office issued the following press release:
The two men responsible for distributing fentanyl to an individual who later died will now spend decades in federal prison. Today, Erick Williams, 49, of Pine Bluff, was sentenced to 240 months, or 20 years, in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Earlier, Cortell Randolph, 48, of North Little Rock, the man who provided the fentanyl directly to the victim, was sentenced to 292 months in federal prison, also followed by three years of supervised release. Jonathan D. Ross, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced the sentences, which were both hande...