{"id":491833,"date":"2026-10-10T19:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T19:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/491833\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T19:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T19:24:09","slug":"california-man-issued-12-year-sentence-after-attempting-to-smuggle-fentanyl-through-cvg-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/491833\/","title":{"rendered":"California man issued 12-year sentence after attempting to smuggle fentanyl through CVG Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KurtCOVINGTON, Ky. \u2014<\/p>\n

A California man is set to spend over a decade in prison after authorities say that he attempted to smuggle hundreds of grams of fentanyl through CVG Airport.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Genghis Khan Ali Stevenson, 48, was handed down a sentence of 150 months in prison after he was previously found guilty in federal court of drug possession with the intent to distribute.<\/p>\n

According to authorities, the fentanyl was found in Stevenson’s possession as he attempted to board a flight on March 28, 2024 that was departing for Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

However, authorities noticed the fentanyl \u2014 which weighed 251 grams in total \u2014 as well as $15,000 in cash during a search of his carry-on bag before the flight was able to take off.<\/p>\n

Stevenson was then arrested and charged with drug possession a short time later.<\/p>\n

According to the Drug Enforcement Agency, 251 grams of fentanyl is lethal enough to kill as many as 125,000 people.<\/p>\n

After his release from prison, prosecutors say that Stevenson will be subject to an additional 5 years of police supervision.<\/p>\n

Stevenson reportedly has a lengthy criminal history that includes prior convictions for robbery and carjacking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COVINGTON, Ky. \u2014 A California man is set to spend over a decade in prison after authorities say…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6577,7,9,34230,8,191730,75231,13260,4909,191732,20873,191731,153544,2901,7214,2480,21889,191729],"class_list":["post-491833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-authority","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-man","tag-california-news","tag-cvg-airport","tag-drug-possession","tag-fentanyl","tag-flight","tag-genghis-khan-ali-stevenson","tag-gram","tag-police-supervision","tag-prior-conviction","tag-prison","tag-prosecutor","tag-robbery","tag-sentence","tag-stevenson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}