BISMARCK — A Detroit man was ordered to spend 15 years in federal prison for distributing hundreds of oxycodone pills in North Dakota, mostly on and near the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.
Mario Garmoo, 32, was sentenced on charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess oxycodone and possession with the intent to distribute oxycodone. In March 2019, law enforcement in Fargo stopped and searched a vehicle Garmoo was traveling in and found 94 oxycodone pills and about one pound of marijuana, according to a news release from federal prosecutors.
Garmoo had traveled out of state and was returning to North Dakota to distribute the oxycodone, an addictive opioid painkiller, prosecutors said.
The investigation found that Garmoo had distributed hundreds of oxycodone pills mainly in the area of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, prosecutors said.
He had two prior drug trafficking convictions, making him a "career offender," prosecutors said.
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Along with 15 years in prison, U.S. District Judge Daniel Traynor sentenced Garmoo to three years of supervised release.
