{"id":65934,"date":"2025-12-20T07:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/65934\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T07:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:24:13","slug":"man-gets-14-years-for-dealing-fentanyl-in-nepa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/65934\/","title":{"rendered":"Man gets 14 years for dealing fentanyl in NEPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Arizona man has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for trafficking fentanyl in Northeast Pennsylvania, according to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Malachy E. Mannion also sentenced Shane Burns, 26, of Scottsdale, to serve five years of probation upon his release on his conviction for conspiring to distribute fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>According to prosecutors, Burns was one of 15 people who were indicted in February 2023 on charges of conspiring to distribute more than 400 grams of the deadly opioid.<\/p>\n<p>Burns was the leader and organizer of the operation, having established connections with Mexican cartels to obtain fentanyl pills that he distributed in Wilkes-Barre, Scranton and beyond, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>The case was investigated by the FBI, Wilkes-Barre police and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Arizona man has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for trafficking fentanyl in Northeast Pennsylvania,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[46,182,803,139,28,178,180,179,802],"class_list":{"0":"post-65934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-courts","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-luzerne-county","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-scranton","14":"tag-scranton-headlines","15":"tag-scranton-news","16":"tag-top-stories-cvc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}