LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - A man from the Dominican Republic has been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison for transporting 118 pounds of fentanyl across Nebraska.
Felipe Genao-Minaya, 49, was sentenced last week to five years and 10 months, plus three years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, The Lincoln Journal-Star reported.
A Nebraska State Patrol trooper stopped a semi-trailer truck Genao-Minaya was driving on Interstate 80 near Kearney on April 26, 2018. The trooper found a compartment inside the trailer containing 118 pounds of fentanyl, the largest seizure of the drug in the state at the time, the patrol said.
A passenger in the truck, Nelson Nunez, of New Jersey, is scheduled for sentencing later this week.
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