Man sentenced to 16 years for fentanyl production, trafficking in Alberta
Posted January 29, 2025 6:15 pm.
Tuesday, Jonathan Loyie was sentenced to 16 years in prison due to his involvement in fentanyl production and trafficking within the province.
The drug trafficking reportedly took place in and around Edmonton and Calgary after being produced in a lab in Foothills County.
Through an Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) investigation, Loyie was charged with 29 counts. While in court, he pleaded guilty to five.
During Tuesday’s decision, Justice Nathan Whitling described the magnitude of the operation as “staggering” according to the Public Prosecution Service of Canada.
George Dolhai, Director of Public Prosecutions said, “Wholesale dealers in fentanyl put Canadians, especially the most vulnerable members of our society, at risk of death or other grievous harm. Their only concern is the ability to make large sums of profit from other people’s misery.”
Adding, “They are directly part of the source of the supply chain. They will be prosecuted to the full extent of the evidence available and prosecutors will seek sentences that will denounce and deter their conduct through the punishment imposed.”
