DULUTH, Minn. (Northern News Now) – A Duluth man has been sentenced to over 13 years in prison for drug trafficking.
Diaunte Shields, 44, was sentenced this week and will also serve five years of supervised release.
Authorities searched Shields’ apartment in the Duluth Heights neighborhood last February, uncovering over a kilogram of fentanyl, another kilogram of cocaine concealed in a FedEx box, methamphetamine, a firearm, ammunition, and more than $33,000 in cash.
“Shields trafficked deadly poison into our community and will now be off the streets for more than a decade,” officials stated.
He pleaded guilty last August to possession of drugs with intent to distribute.
According to estimates, the amount of fentanyl seized had the potential to be lethal to more than 500,000 people.
