Federal prosecutors have secured a fourth guilty plea in a drug smuggling ring that mailed a record amount of fentanyl pills from Arizona to the Twin Cities hidden in stuffed animals.

A St. Paul woman has pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter in the fentanyl overdose death of her 1-year-old daughter.

Kenneth Quinn, 23, of Des Moines was sentenced to 17 years in prison after selling fentanyl pills that led to the death of a 1-year-old child in 2023.

A St. Paul woman has admitted that she is responible for the fentanyl overdose death of her 1-year-old daughter. Tessa Jean Vorlicky, 21, agreed Thursday in Ramsey County District Court to plead guilty to second-degree manslaughter in connection with the death in December 2023 of Mi’Vida Vorlicky.

A St. Cloud man overdosed on fentanyl this past November. Now, a suspected drug dealer from Holdingford is charged with murder.

"Over 90% of the cocaine the Michigan State Police tests contain fentanyl," said Saginaw County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Blair N. Stevenson.

Samantha Yi, 31, of Lake Worth Beach, was sentenced Wednesday to 24 years in prison for her role in selling fentanyl to a mother whose infant ingested the drug and died in Boynton Beach in 2022.

Robiel Williams pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl after authorities seized more than 280,000 fentanyl pills in early 2023.

Samantha Yi, 31, of Palm Beach County, has been sentenced to 24 years in federal prison for distributing fentanyl that led to the death of a 10-month-old infant in Boynton Beach in 2022.

A mom tested positive for fentanyl the same day her 2-year-old son died of a fentanyl and xylazine overdose, Florida authorities said. Melissa Rae Harper, 43, has now been charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office announced Jan. 17.

Local and federal authorities conducting an investigation into drug trafficking in Orleans Parish arrested two men and seized guns, a cache of illegal narcotics including fentanyl and more than $33,000.

Fentanyl is the most common drug found in overdose deaths in the state, according to a new report from the Utah Department of Health and Human Services.