WATERTOWN, S.D. (KELO) — A Watertown man was found guilty of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, that being fentanyl.
According to a press release from the United States Attorney’s Office, Heath Kelvin Hagen, age 37, from Watertown, was convicted by a jury following a three-day jury trial in federal district court in Aberdeen on Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
The verdict was returned on August 1. The charges carry a penalty of a mandatory minimum of 10 years and a maximum of life in custody and/or a $10,000,000 fine, a mandatory minimum of five years of supervised release and a $100 special assessment to the federal crime victims fund.
Hagen was part of a group of people who trafficked thousands of pills in the Northeastern part of South Dakota. Hagen obtained the pills from Minneapolis and redistributed them to others primarily in Watertown and Sisseton. Witnesses identified Hagen as the biggest fentanyl dealer in Watertown for a period of time in early 2022.
The defendant was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.
