It's 15 years in federal prison for former longtime Montreal journalists Wendy Kraus-Heitmann, 43, (aka Wendy Hechtman) and her husband Ken Hechtman, 49.Both pleaded guilty to charges of Conspiracy to manufacture Carfentanil - a form of the powerful drug Fentanyl - and were each ordered to serve 180 months behind bars.
Wendy Kraus-Heitmann was sentenced on October 26, 2018 and her husband Ken on December 6, 2018 in Omaha, Nebraska.
Both are American citizens who lived in Montreal for several decades before moving to Omaha, her hometown, in February 2016.
Kraus-Heitmann came to study at Concordia and was well-known in university newspaper circles and beyond.
She has four children with two previous husbands.
Hechtman attended Colombia University and received considerable attention in Canada in 2001 when he was kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan working on a freelance feature article he was trying to sell to the Montreal Mirror.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons website has not made clear where they are serving their sentences.