A Burnsville man was sentenced to prison Thursday for his role in the fatal fentanyl overdose of an Eagan teen.

Dakota County Judge Dannia Edwards sentenced Sadiq Aden Isack, 29, to five years in prison for providing deadly fentanyl-laced pills to Hunter Verner Carlson, 16, in January 2021.

Sadiq Aden Isack (Courtesy of the Dakota County Sheriff’s Office)

Isack pled guilty to one count of third-degree murder on May 23, 2024.

According to court reports, Eagan police were called to a residence on the morning of Jan. 28, 2021, after Carlson was found by his mother face down and unresponsive in his bed. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

During a search of the teen’s bedroom, a broken blue pill was found in a safe, which was later confirmed to be fentanyl by the Minnesota BCA. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the death a result of positional asphyxia complicating acute fentanyl toxicity.

According to the press release, the night before, Carlson had ingested Percocet with a friend who arranged the purchase of the pills from two men from Burnsville. Video footage from a home security camera showed a white car close to Carlson’s home that evening — which was found to belong to co-defendant Jamal Ahmed Adan.

Officers found the car parked at a motel in Burnsville weeks later. Adan and Isack were found in a motel room with more than 30 light blue pills that looked like the pill fragment found in Carlson’s safe.

According to the report, their phone records showed text messages between Adan, Isack and the friend on Jan. 27, 2021.

“We need to continue to hold drug dealers accountable for the harm they cause to our communities in Dakota County,” said County Attorney Kathy Keena in a press release. “My deepest sympathies to Hunter’s family and all families who’ve lost a loved one to fentanyl poisoning.”

Isack remains in custody at the Dakota County Jail awaiting transfer to the Minnesota Department of Corrections.

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