LOUISVILLE, Miss.–Receiving a package in the mail containing fentanyl in pill form has earned 39-year-old Medford Eiland, of Louisville, a stay in federal prison.
Eiland was sentenced last week to four years and five months for taking delivery of a package containing 500 fentanyl pills from Arizona. Eiland was unaware the package had already been intercepted by a U.S. postal inspector.
The inspector and other law enforcement officers then tracked the package to Eiland and arrested him when he got it in the mail in March of 2022.
Eiland must also serve five years on probation when he gets out of prison.
