Warren Herman Sloan, Fentanyl Distribution, California 2022

Warren Herman Sloan, 25, Sentenced to 24 Months in Federal Prison for Fentanyl Distribution in Hoopa Valley, California

SAN FRANCISCO - Warren Herman Sloan was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for attempting to distribute, and possessing with the intent to distribute, fentanyl on the Hoopa Valley Tribe Indian Reservation.

The sentence was handed down by United States District Judge Susan Illston. Sloan, 25, formerly of Hoopa Valley in Humboldt County, pleaded guilty to the charges on February 15, 2022.

In his plea agreement, Sloan admitted that in early 2021 he engaged in distributing drugs for profit on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation. Sloan further admitted that on March 29, 2021, he attempted to meet with his drug supplier to obtain narcotics which he planned to resell for profit on the Hoopa reservation.

He acknowledged in the plea agreement that he intended to purchase approximately 120 counterfeit pharmaceutical pills for $1,700. During that meeting, police officers arrived and arrested Sloan. Sloan stated in his plea agreement that he now knows the counterfeit pills he was purchasing contained fentanyl.

One of the young women, 19 years old, tragically died from a fentanyl overdose in Hoopa Valley in early months of 2021. Sloan admitted he was aware that on March 5, 2021, two weeks before his arrest, the 19-year-old woman, whom he knew from the reservation, died from a drug overdose and that he heard the overdose was caused by counterfeit pharmaceutical pills laced with fentanyl.

Sloan was handed a 24-month prison term and will serve three years of supervised release following his release from federal prison. Assistant U.S. Attorney Ross E. Weingarten prosecuted the case, which was the result of an investigation by the FBI, DEA, and the Humboldt County Drug Task Force.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/hoopa-valley-fentanyl-dealer-sentenced-two-years-federal-prison