Six Sentenced to a Combined 540 Months in Minnesota for Conspiracy to Distribute Nearly 30 Kilograms of Fentanyl Pills
On August 4, 2026, U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen announced in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that Amanda Jennifer Freeman was sentenced that day by U.S. District Judge Michael J. Davis. Freeman was the sixth and final defendant sentenced in United States v. Shiloe Devanglo Nixon et al., and the six defendants received a combined 540 months in prison for conspiring to distribute nearly 30 kilograms of fentanyl pills.
The sentences were: Shiloe Devanglo Nixon, 37, of Woodbury, and Malik Deronte Nixon, 30, of Woodbury, 180 months each plus five years of supervised release; Ernesto Alexis Seals, 28, of Welch, 120 months; Justin Keith Banks, 37, of Rush City, 60 months; and Freeman, 38, of St. Paul, and Zakiya Niajoneu Whitney, 25, of San Tan Valley, Arizona, time served plus two years of supervised release each.
According to court documents, from September 2023 through March 2024 the group moved fentanyl pills from Arizona into Minnesota's Twin Cities for distribution. Investigators seized three shipments: almost 9.7 kilograms from a St. Paul rental home on February 6, 2024; roughly 10 kilograms from Whitney's car on Interstate 40 in New Mexico about a month later; and roughly 9.7 kilograms, divided among nine plastic bags, from the Nixons' car weeks after that.
The case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Dakota County Drug Task Force, the Minnesota State Patrol, the New Mexico State Police and the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport Police Department, and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Campbell Warner.
Source: U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota
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