ST. CLOUD, Minn. — A St. Cloud woman was sentenced to more than 26 years in prison for her role in distributing approximately $10 million worth of drugs from Mexico to the upper Midwest.
Macalla Knott, who moved to Mexico in March 2020, received shipments of meth, cocaine and fentanyl from a cartel in Mexico, according to court documents. She then sent them to distributors in North Dakota and Minnesota.
She pleaded guilty in 2023 to conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, money laundering and continuing criminal enterprise.
As part of the investigation, 18 others were charged in North Dakota, and officials seized 100 pounds of meth, along with 9 pounds of fentanyl powder and 120,000 fentanyl pills.
Knott was sentenced to 321 months in prison.
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