Alvin Mitchell, Fentanyl Trafficking, Nebraska 2026

A Seattle man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for mailing thousands of fentanyl pills to the state of Nebraska, according to court records.

Alvin Mitchell, 38, was sentenced on March 20, 2026, in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, a deadly opioid. Chief United States District Court Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., handed down the sentence, which includes a 10-year term of supervised release after Mitchell’s release from prison.

Mitchell was held responsible for a drug weight equivalent to approximately 29,000 fentanyl pills, based on the weights of earlier packages he mailed to the same address in Omaha. Investigators uncovered seven earlier packages that were mailed from Seattle to the same address in Omaha dating back to October 2024, according to court records.

The packages were seized by an FBI task force in November 2024, while investigating co-defendant Duane Walker Jr. as a fentanyl pill dealer in Omaha. On February 3, 2025, investigators searched a USPS package destined for an address in Omaha and found almost 5,000 fentanyl pills inside. The package was later determined to belong to Walker’s grandmother.

Cell phone evidence secured pursuant to search warrants showed text message conversations between Walker and Mitchell about the packages. The evidence also showed that Mitchell had mailed packages of similar weights to Utah and Missouri. Mitchell faced a mandatory minimum sentence enhancement because of a prior federal drug trafficking conviction from 2013 involving thousands of Percocet pills.

Co-defendant Duane Walker Jr., 29, of Omaha, was sentenced on March 12, 2026, to 235 months’ imprisonment. Almost $50,000 cash seized from Walker will be forfeited to the United States as proceeds of drug trafficking.

This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Omaha Police Department, and the United States Postal Inspection Service.

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