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A man from Springfield will spend over a decade in prison for his role in a conspiracy to sell fentanyl and heroin.
33-year-old Marquise Martin was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to 12 years in prison on one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin and/or fentanyl.
Investigators say he made a sale of what he claimed was heroin to an confidential information in August of 2019. Authorities later discovered the drug was fentanyl.
When he was arrested, he admitted to selling more than four kilograms of fentanyl between September and November of 2019.
Martin is now one of ten defendants in the case to be sentenced in the conspiracy.
His sentence will be served without the possibility of parole.