Drug Dealers who Caused Fentanyl Overdose Death of Mille Lacs Man Sentenced to 21 Years and 10 Years

ST. PAUL – Two defendants who distributed fentanyl in Minnesota, resulting in the death of a man on the Mille Lacs Reservation, have been sentenced to lengthy sentences in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen.

Dimitric Timopkin Wilson, 48, was sentenced to 261 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release, and Allen Lee Goodwin, 51, was sentenced to 120 months in prison and 4 years of supervised release.

According to evidence presented at Wilson’s May 2025 trial, Wilson, a drug dealer, obtained fentanyl from a source in Detroit, Michigan, and distributed it in Wisconsin and Minnesota to lower-level traffickers, including Goodwin.  In July 2023, Goodwin sold fentanyl to a 38-year-old man living on the Mille Lacs Reservation.  The next morning, the victim injected the fentanyl and died minutes later. Additionally, in October 2023, a Minnesota State Patrol trooper pulled Wilson over for a traffic stop.  During the stop, the trooper found hundreds of grams of fentanyl, fentanyl analogue, and crack cocaine hidden in a compartment of Wilson’s car and arrested Wilson.  Finally, less than a year after being indicted, and while on pretrial release, Wilson sold fentanyl to a police informant.

A jury convicted Wilson of one count each of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, possession of fentanyl with the intent to distribute, and distributing fentanyl while on pretrial release.  This was Wilson’s second federal drug conviction, as he was convicted in 2008 in the Eastern District of Michigan for conspiracy to distribute heroin.

In October 2025, U.S. District Judge Donovan W. Frank sentenced Wilson to a total of 261 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, possessing fentanyl with the intent to distribute, and distributing fentanyl while on pretrial release.  Judge Frank specifically found that the death of the Mille Lacs man was a foreseeable result of Wilson’s fentanyl trafficking and that Wilson therefore bore responsibility for the man’s death.  The sentences run consecutively, and the total sentence to 261 months in prison is well above the sentencing guidelines range.

Goodwin pled guilty in a separate proceeding to distributing fentanyl resulting in death.  On December 3, 2025, Judge Frank sentenced Goodwin to 120 months’ imprisonment and 4 years’ supervised release.  Judge Frank noted the “devastation that fentanyl is having” on Minnesota’s communities and said that in his decades as a state and federal judge, he had “seen nothing quite like it.”

This case is the result of an investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the Minnesota State Patrol, the Mille Lacs Tribal Police Department, the East Central Drug Task Force, the Sawyer County (Wisconsin) Sheriff’s Office, the Wisconsin State Patrol, and the Lac Courte Oreilles (Wisconsin) Tribal Police Department.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Campbell Warner and Allen A. Slaughter, Jr., prosecuted the case.