Rochester Man Sentenced to Prison in Fentanyl Trafficking Case

Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News) - A Rochester man is headed to prison for a drug trafficking conviction.

27-year-old Devantae Noiheuan-Osborne was charged with three counts of first-degree drug sales as the result of a Rochester police investigation that spanned several months during the summer of 2024. The criminal complaint accused him of selling fentanyl pills to a Rochester police informant on three different occasions.

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Sold Informant More Than 120 Fentanyl Pills

The court document says Noiheuan-Osborne sold the informant at least 40 pills during each transaction. The sales occurred at Noiheuan-Osborne's home in southeast Rochester.

A search warrant was executed at the residence in September 2024, which led to the discovery of two fentanyl pills.

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Guilty Plea Entered in December

Noiheuan-Osborne entered into a plea agreement last December, just as his case was about to go to trial. He admitted to one of the first-degree drug sale charges in exchange for the dismissal of the two other counts.

Noiheuan-Osborne was sentenced today to 64 months in prison.

Previous Conviction

His criminal history includes a felony burglary conviction for a break-in at a Rochester residence in 2018. In that case, he was given a 45-day jail sentence.

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