A 74-year-old woman in Massachusetts has been sentenced to two years of probation after she pleaded guilty to taking part in an interstate fentanyl trafficking ring.

Patrica Parker will spend nine months of her probation on home confinement, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Rhode Island said Monday . Originally from Texas but now living in Massachusetts, Parker pleaded guilty in May to conspiring to distribute fentanyl and distributing more than 310 grams of the drug, equivalent to 150,000 lethal doses.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Parker popped up on authorities’ radar in 2022 after she distributed fentanyl-laced counterfeit amphetamine pills to an undercover Food and Drug Administration special agent in Rhode Island.

In an affidavit filed in federal court, the FDA agent

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