(WBBM NEWSRADIO) - A 35-year-old Kankakee man has been sentenced to ten years in prison in a federal case involving drugs and the mail.
Javan Jamar Thompson, according to federal prosecutors, used the U.S. Mail in an attempt to obtain fentanyl and cocaine for distribution.
A package was intercepted containing thousands of fentanyl laced pills and several hundred grams of cocaine.
Despite it being only an attempt to possess the drugs, federal law provides for a minimum of ten years when the drug is fentanyl.
Ruth Mendon with the Postal Inspection Service said the agency is “committed to ensuring the U.S. Postal Service is not a mechanism to distribute deadly fentanyl and other illicit narcotics.”
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