Montreal man gets 22 years in U.S. prison in transborder fentanyl distribution ring

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Open this photo in gallery: An OPP officer displays bags containing fentanyl as Ontario Provincial Police host a news conference in 2017.Chris Young/The Canadian Press A Quebec man has been sentenced to 22 years behind bars for his role in a global scheme to distribute fentanyl and other synthetic opioids throughout the United States, all of it orchestrated from inside a Canadian prison. Xuan Cahn Nguyen, 43, of Montreal, was extradited to the U.S. in 2021 along with another Canadian co-conspirator before pleading guilty last year to drug distribution and money laundering charges in Fargo, N.D. Court documents say Nguyen,...