Feds Sentence 2 Dealers for Man’s Fatal Fentanyl Overdose
BY MN CRIME STAFF
Two men have been sentenced in federal court after supplying fentanyl that led to the death of a 38-year-old man on the Mille Lacs Reservation.
The sentencing comes more than two years after the victim overdosed in July 2023, a death authorities traced back to a Detroit-based supply chain that moved fentanyl into Wisconsin and Minnesota.
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Federal prosecutors said Dimitric Timopkin Wilson, 48, ran a trafficking operation that brought fentanyl from Detroit to the Upper Midwest. Evidence at his May 2025 trial showed Wilson supplied lower-level dealers, including 51-year-old Allen Lee Goodwin. Investigators learned that Goodwin sold fentanyl to the Mille Lacs man, who injected it the next morning and died within minutes.
Authorities also detailed Wilson’s October 2023 encounter with a Minnesota State Patrol trooper, who stopped his vehicle and found hundreds of grams of fentanyl, fentanyl analogue and crack cocaine hidden in a compartment. Wilson was arrested, but less than a year after being indicted and while on pretrial release, he again sold fentanyl to a police informant. A jury later convicted him of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, possession with intent to distribute, and distributing fentanyl while on pretrial release. He had a previous federal drug conviction from 2008 in the Eastern District of Michigan for conspiring to distribute heroin.
In October 2025, U.S. District Judge Donovan W. Frank sentenced Wilson to a total of 261 months in prison. The sentences run consecutively and exceed federal sentencing guidelines. Judge Frank ruled that the death on the Mille Lacs Reservation was a foreseeable result of Wilson’s operation and said Wilson bore responsibility. Wilson will also serve 10 years of supervised release.
Goodwin pled guilty earlier to distributing fentanyl resulting in death. Judge Frank sentenced him on Dec. 3 to 120 months in prison and 4 years of supervised release. During sentencing, the judge commented on the widespread impact of fentanyl in Minnesota, saying he had seen “nothing quite like it” in his decades on the bench.
The investigation involved the FBI, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the Minnesota State Patrol, the Mille Lacs Tribal Police Department, the East Central Drug Task Force, the Sawyer County Sheriff’s Office in Wisconsin, the Wisconsin State Patrol and the Lac Courte Oreilles Tribal Police Department.
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