Kenai男子贩运逾4公斤芬太尼被判14年以上：曾把毒品与儿童读物同箱寄往阿拉斯加
美国司法部阿拉斯加区联邦检察官办公室10月21日宣布，Kenai 男子 Christian James Rodgers 当日被判处14年以上联邦监禁，罪名是共谋持有并意图分销超过4公斤芬太尼。检方称，现年34岁的 Rodgers 是 Kenai 地区主要的芬太尼供应者之一；他被捕后，当地芬太尼一度稀缺、价格翻倍。
根据法庭文件，Rodgers 在2024年9月至2025年3月间与至少另外两人共谋，在阿拉斯加分销及持有并意图分销芬太尼。他曾前往内华达州和加州，与同伙及其供应源头见面，取得带有锡那罗亚贩毒集团标记的芬太尼；他指示一名同伙把芬太尼寄往阿拉斯加，自己也把芬太尼寄到自己在阿拉斯加的住所，两批各约2公斤，其中一个箱子里还装有儿童读物。检方还指，Rodgers 在推进其贩毒共谋的过程中持有枪支，而他此前已在 Kenai 的阿拉斯加州高等法院有两项重罪前科，分别涉及受管制药物不当行为与武器不当行为。
2025年5月20日，Rodgers 与 Johnatan Lau-Osuna、Helmut Mey 被联邦大陪审团起诉。Rodgers 被控共谋分销、企图分销以及重罪犯持有枪支等罪名。三名被告其后都就共谋分销罪名认罪并已被判刑，Rodgers 的刑期为三人中最高。法庭在量刑时强调，芬太尼对阿拉斯加小型社区的影响不成比例地严重，并指出令人不安的是，Rodgers 自己年幼的女儿曾被检出微量芬太尼阳性。
阿拉斯加区联邦检察官 Michael J. Heyman 表示，被告把数量巨大的芬太尼贩运进一个本已深受这种致命毒品之害的阿拉斯加小社区，今天的判决传递出明确信息：执法部门将穷追不舍地追查把致命毒品带进社区的人、瓦解其贩运网络并追究责任。联邦调查局（FBI）Anchorage 办公室主管特工 Matthew Schlegel 表示，Rodgers 与同伙协调了一场跨国、跨州的行动，把大量芬太尼带进阿拉斯加、意图在一个小社区分销。此案由 FBI Anchorage 办公室、美国邮政检查局 Anchorage 分部与阿拉斯加州警通过阿拉斯加高强度贩毒区计划的中南部地区毒品专案组调查，Anchorage 警察局协助，由助理联邦检察官 Mac Caille Petursson 起诉。
Kenai Man Sentenced to Over 14 Years for Trafficking Over Four Kilograms of Fentanyl Into Alaska
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Alaska announced on October 21 that Christian James Rodgers, of Kenai, was sentenced that day to over 14 years in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute over four kilograms of fentanyl in Alaska. Prosecutors said Rodgers, 34, was a principal fentanyl supplier for the Kenai region; once he was arrested, fentanyl in Kenai became sparse and its price doubled.
According to court documents, between September 2024 and March 2025 Rodgers conspired with at least two other individuals to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl in Alaska. He traveled to Nevada and California to meet with his co-conspirators and his source of supply to obtain fentanyl bearing Sinaloa cartel markings. He instructed a co-conspirator to ship fentanyl to Alaska, and shipped fentanyl to his own residence in Alaska himself, each shipment containing approximately two kilograms; one of the boxes also contained children's books. Rodgers also possessed a firearm in furtherance of the conspiracy, after two prior felony convictions in Alaska Superior Court in Kenai for misconduct involving controlled substances and misconduct involving weapons.
On May 20, 2025, Rodgers, Johnatan Lau-Osuna and Helmut Mey were indicted by a federal grand jury. Rodgers was charged with conspiracy, attempted distribution and being a felon in possession of a firearm. All three defendants later pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and have been sentenced, with Rodgers receiving the highest sentence. In handing down the sentence, the court emphasized the disproportionate impact fentanyl has on small Alaskan communities, and how troubling it was that Rodgers' own young daughter tested positive for trace amounts of fentanyl.
U.S. Attorney Michael J. Heyman for the District of Alaska said the defendant trafficked a huge quantity of fentanyl into a small Alaska community already suffering from the devastating consequences of the drug, and that the sentence sends a clear message that traffickers will be relentlessly pursued and their networks dismantled. Matthew Schlegel, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Anchorage Field Office, said Rodgers and his co-conspirators coordinated a transnational and interstate effort to bring substantial quantities of fentanyl into Alaska for distribution in a small community. The case was investigated by the FBI Anchorage Field Office, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service's Anchorage Domicile and Alaska State Troopers through the Alaska High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area initiative's Southcentral Area-Wide Narcotics team, with assistance from the Anchorage Police Department, and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Mac Caille Petursson.
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