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Federal operation shuts down fentanyl ring tied to Montana

  • Mark Rattner NonStop Local Digital Journalist

MISSOULA, Mont. — A multijurisdictional operation launched in 2023 successfully dismantled an international drug smuggling ring that funneled fentanyl from the Netherlands and Mexico into Montana, Washington, Arizona, and Texas, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Montana said in a release.

Leonardo Sánchez-Breton
Washington

Leonardo Sánchez-Breton

  • Donald W. Meyers/Yakima Herald-Republic
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Leonardo Sánchez-Breton enters a courtroom in the Yakima County Courthouse Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026. Sánchez-Breton was one of 15 men arrested …

Leonardo Sánchez-Breton
Washington

Leonardo Sánchez-Breton

  • Donald W. Meyers/Yakima Herald-Republic
  • Updated

Leonardo Sánchez-Breton is shackled after his sentencing hearing in Yakima County Superior Court Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026. Sánchez-Breton was s…

Great Falls man sentenced after meth found in home and car
Montana

Great Falls man sentenced after meth found in home and car

  • Mark Rattner NonStop Local Digital Journalist
  • Updated

GREAT FALLS, Mont. — Acting U.S. Attorney Mark Steger Smith announced that a Great Falls man was sentenced to 12 years in prison after investigators found large amounts of methamphetamine in his home and later in a car he was riding in.

Montana

Missoula man gets 4 ½ years in drug trafficking case

  • Mark Rattner NonStop Local Digital Journalist
  • Updated

MISSOULA, Mont. — Acting U.S. Attorney Tim Racicot announced a Missoula man was sentenced for moving methamphetamine and fentanyl from Washington to Montana for distribution.