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North Dakota reservations target of Detroit opioid traffickers, feds say U.S. Attorney Drew Wrigley unveils Operation Letter To Reub, which alleges 30 people shipped tens of millions of dollars worth of fentanyl and oxycodone pills to the Fort Berthold, Spirit Lake and Turtle Mountain reservations. 6:30 pm, Feb. 24, 2021 × Many more indictments are expected in cracking a drug ring that targeted North Dakota Indian Reservations. FARGO — Federal prosecutors have started to unveil defendants in a significant opioid trafficking case they say led one of the most violent De...

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say they have cut into an opioid pipeline that for five years has been moving millions of dollars worth of oxycodone pills from Detroit to three American...

ajohnson@minotdailynews.com A jury trial has been scheduled for Feb. 23 in U.S. District Court in Fargo before Judge Peter Welte for some defendants whom authorities allege were part of a a drug trafficking ring that distributed oxycodone on the Fort Berthold, Turtle Mountain, and Spirit Lake reservations between 2015 and 2019. The ring also reportedly had ties to Detroit, Mich. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Fargo held a press conference on Thursday to discuss developments in “Operation Blue Prairie.” Authorities allege that the ring leaders of the operation were Baquan Ramon Sledge Jr...

"Operation Blue Prairie" led investigators to two Detroit-based brothers accused of recruiting North Dakota residents, some of them addicts, to become low-level drug dealers peddling oxycodone pills, a federal prosecutor said.

A U.S. Attorney said 26 people have been charged in a major drug pipeline bust which fueled at least $2.5 million of oxycodone pills from Detroit into American Indian reservations in North Dakota