Arizona man sentenced to 4 years in prison for trafficking fentanyl to Montana

MISSOULA - An Arizona man who was part of a drug trafficking organizing that brought fentanyl into Montana was sentenced today to four years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Mark Steger Smith said.

D'Andre Dontae Glass, 36, pleaded guilty in February 2026 to one count of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl.

U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen presided.

The government alleged in court documents that Glass was part of a drug trafficking organization and oversaw the delivery of packages of fentanyl to Montana and two other western states.

Between February 2023 and March 2025 Gerad Nigel Punch led a drug trafficking organization that supplied fentanyl from Phoenix to local dealers in Texas, Washington, and Montana. In 2023 and 2024, Glass worked for the organization and mailed packages with fentanyl to the three states. He also visited Montana and the other two states to oversee the package deliveries, and to distribute the fentanyl to local dealers.

While working for the organization, Glass possessed more than 400 grams of fentanyl that he intended to distribute. During the investigation of the organization, law enforcement seized over 10 kilograms of fentanyl from its members.

This case is part of the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) initiative established by Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion. The HSTF is a whole-of-government partnership dedicated to eliminating criminal cartels, foreign gangs, transnational criminal organizations, and human smuggling and trafficking rings operating in the United States and abroad. Through historic interagency collaboration, the HSTF directs the full might of United States law enforcement towards identifying, investigating, and prosecuting the full spectrum of crimes committed by these organizations, which have long fueled violence and instability within our borders. In performing this work, the HSTF places special emphasis on investigating and prosecuting those engaged in child trafficking or other crimes involving children. The HSTF further utilizes all available tools to prosecute and remove the most violent criminal aliens from the United States. HSTF Montana comprises agents and officers from multiple law enforcement agencies with the prosecution being led by the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Montana.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Lowney prosecuted the case. The Southwest Montana Drug Task Force and the Montana Division of Criminal Investigation conducted the investigation.