MANKATO, Minn. – The final sentence has been handed out for nearly 6,000 counterfeit pills containing deadly fentanyl that were seized during a southern Minnesota drug bust.

Levone William Adams, 52 of Amboy, has been ordered to spend three years and nine months in prison, with credit for 479 days already served, for pleading guilty to third-degree drug possession.

Adams was one of six people arrested in April 2024 by the Mankato Department of Public Safety and Agents of the Minnesota River Valley Drug Task Force. Court documents state the six were charged after law enforcement found thousands of pills containing fentanyl in a Mankato apartment.

Of the other five defendants:

- Howard Junior Beacham, 41, pleaded guilty to first-degree drug possession and was sentenced to four

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