Case DIH-0034

Danny Nunez

Federal · California · Sentenced 2025

Admitted selling fentanyl to a 25-year-old woman whose parents found her dead the next day; arrested weeks later meeting detectives who posed as her by message.

Court
Federal, Southern District of California
State
California
Year of death
2024
Year sentenced
2025
Drugs
Fentanyl
Conduct
Commercial sale
Relationship
Not reported
Conviction
Drug distribution; precise conviction count requires follow-up
Plea or trial
Plea
Sentence
188 months imprisonment
Found through
Federal DOJ release survey 2020–2026

This was a federal prosecution. For what California’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see California in the state law guide.

Sources

  1. justice.govSan diego man sentenced more 15 years prison supplying fentanyl resulting young womans

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