12/6/2022
Melissa Scanlan, a fentanyl dealer known as the “Drug Llama” who was convicted in Illinois, is making a play to get out of prison.
Scanlan is serving 13 years and is asking for compassionate release despite having run a lucrative cartel-connected fentanyl business based on the dark web.
Scanlan’s co-defendant has already been denied a similar compassionate release request claiming COVID was too dangerous to stay in prison.
In 2018, the Drug Llama was moving 50,000 fentanyl pills over the dark web from her home in Southern California, according to federal prosecutors in Southern Illinois where she faced a drug and money-laundering case. When she was arrested and locked up, Scanlan was five months pregnant.
As the I-Team first reported, Scanlan sold the fentanyl that ended up killing a 41-year-old woman in Southern California. Adrienne Wood, a regular customer of the Drug Llama, died of an overdose in September 2017.
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