五次向卧底探员卖毒、被捕时车内还有未成年人：圣路易斯男子贩毒判刑8年
美国司法部密苏里东区检察官办公室11月2日宣布，密苏里州圣路易斯市（St. Louis）男子 Michael Strother 因多次向联邦卧底探员贩卖冰毒与芬太尼，当日在圣路易斯的联邦法院被判处8年监禁。圣路易斯是密苏里州的一座独立市，案件交易地点还涉及 St. Louis County 的 Maplewood 与 St. Charles County 的 St. Charles 一带。
联邦地区法官 Sarah E. Pitlyk 作出了上述判决。检察官办公室说，现年21岁的 Strother 在2024年先后五次向烟酒枪炮与爆炸物管理局（ATF）的一名卧底探员卖毒：1月24日，他在 Maplewood 卖出冰毒与芬太尼；此后又在2月15日、2月29日、4月8日与4月22日四次卖出冰毒。
4月22日交易之后，执法人员试图拦停 Strother 所乘坐的车辆，车辆逃逸后最终停下，Strother 下车徒步逃跑并脱逃。到了9月5日，一名探员约 Strother 在 St. Charles 一带购毒，他到场后被逮捕；执法人员在他乘坐的车内还发现一名未成年人、多部手机，以及达到可供分销数量的芬太尼。
Strother 今年8月在圣路易斯的联邦法院认罪，罪名包括共谋分销冰毒与芬太尼一项、分销冰毒三项。他承认，归责于他的毒品数量为冰毒1.8公斤、芬太尼35克。
此案由 ATF 查办，助理联邦检察官 Ricardo Dixon 负责起诉。（来源：美国司法部）
St. Louis Man Who Sold Meth and Fentanyl to an Undercover ATF Agent Five Times Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Missouri announced on November 2 that Michael Strother of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced in federal court in St. Louis to eight years in prison for repeatedly selling methamphetamine and fentanyl to a federal undercover agent. St. Louis is an independent city in Missouri, and the deals also took place in Maplewood in St. Louis County and in the St. Charles area of St. Charles County.
U.S. District Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk imposed the sentence. Prosecutors said Strother, now 21, sold drugs to an undercover agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) on five occasions in 2024: on January 24 he sold methamphetamine and fentanyl in Maplewood, and he then sold methamphetamine on February 15, February 29, April 8 and April 22.
After the April 22 transaction, law enforcement tried to conduct a traffic stop of the vehicle in which Strother was an occupant. The vehicle fled but ultimately came to a stop, and Strother fled on foot and escaped. On September 5, an agent arranged to buy drugs from Strother in the St. Charles area. When he arrived, he was arrested in a vehicle that also held a juvenile, multiple cell phones and a distributable amount of fentanyl.
Strother pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis in August to one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl and three counts of distribution of methamphetamine. He admitted that 1.8 kilograms of methamphetamine and 35 grams of fentanyl were attributable to him.
The ATF investigated the case, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Ricardo Dixon prosecuted it. (Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
来源：美国司法部
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