HOPKINSVILLE, KY (CHRISTIAN COUNTY NOW) – A Hopkinsville man was sentenced on June 11 to a total of nine years in federal prison for conspiring to traffic in fentanyl and violating his federal supervised release, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Kentucky.
Court documents reveal that on Jan. 12, 2024, Jamie A. Harris, 47, obtained a shipment of fentanyl pills that he intended to distribute. The DEA lab confirmed the presence of more than 40 grams of a mixture and substance containing a detectible amount of fentanyl.
As a result, Harris was sentenced to eight years in federal prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, said the news release. Harris was sentenced to an additional year in federal prison for a violation of his federal supervised release from a previous federal conviction.
There is no parole in the federal system.
This case is being investigated by the DEA Paducah Post of Duty, the United States Postal Inspection Service, and the Hopkinsville Police Department Special Investigations Unit. Assistant U.S. Attorney Leigh Ann Dycus, of the U.S. Attorney’s Paducah Branch Office, prosecuted the case.
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