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An Appleton man is said to have trafficked nearly one million fentanyl-laced pills to the Fox Valley.
FOX11 reports that 36-year-old Randy Mack was convicted on a charge of Possession of Fentanyl with Intent to Deliver and will be spending 15 years in prison.
UPS had intercepted a package in December of 2022, where they uncovered roughly 56,000 phony Percocet pills that were laced with fentanyl.
Officials began looking into Mack, and they determined he had distributed just shy of one million pills throughout Wisconsin, Michigan, and Arizona.
Fentanyl is continuing to take more and more lives in Wisconsin, with the Department of Health Services saying that the synthetic drug was identified in 91 percent of opioid overdose deaths and 73 percent of all drug overdose deaths.
The CDC estimates that over 74,700 people died in from fentanyl in 2023, which is down only slightly from the just over 76,000 deaths in 2022.
That was actually the first time that stat has gone down since 2018.
