(South Bend, IN) - A Northern indiana man who sold Fentanyl to a person, resulting in their death, has been sentenced with more than two decades in a federal prison. Jarin Noojin of Mishawaka, 26, was given a 24-year federal prison sentence in U.S. District Court at South Bend this week.

“The evidence in this case established that this defendant was a dealer, who was responsible for one of those deaths,” he said.

Authorities say Noojin was making and selling fentanyl he would press into pills to look more like prescription medication. Even after his product resulted in the death of one person, he continued to sell his product.

"There is no room in Michiana, or anywhere across the region, for those who think dealing illicit fentanyl is a way of life," Johnson said.

U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson said more than 76,000 people are estimated to have died in 2022 from drug overdoses involving fentanyl.