A Grand Junction man was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in federal prison for distributing deadly fentanyl-laced pills, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado announced.
Christopher Huggett, 30, began selling counterfeit pills that appeared to be oxycodone in 2017, according to the plea agreement. The pills contained fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is 80-100 times stronger than morphine, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
According to the plea agreement, Huggett sold several pills to Zacharia Green on Dec. 26, 2017. Green then sold those pills to the victim, identified as J.E. in court documents. Less than two months after the two overdose incidents, Huggett and Holder went to Mexico to obtain and import additional fentanyl pills, according to the plea agreement. Court documents state Huggett saw Holder give the pill supplier a large wad of cash. The two returned to Grand Junction with several thousand fentanyl pills, which were concealed in the dash of Holder's vehicle.
Agents confronted Huggett, and he confessed that he had asked inmates to murder Green. However, he told authorities that he did not actually intend for that to happen, according to the plea agreement. He told the agents that he was presenting a front to keep up appearances in jail and only spoke to inmates he thought had no possibility of release.
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