Case DIH-0047
Lakota Tehya Wakley
Connected fentanyl buyers, including the man who died, to a co-defendant seller and was paid a cut. The judge found he directly caused the death. Separately pleaded no contest in state court (March 2026) to selling the fentanyl in an earlier 2021 death.
- Court
- Federal, Eastern District of California
- State
- California
- Year of death
- 2024
- Year sentenced
- 2025
- Drugs
- Fentanyl
- Conduct
- Intermediary
- Relationship
- Courier / broker for a seller
- Conviction
- Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl
- Plea or trial
- Not reported in reviewed source
- Sentence
- 96 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
- justice.govFresno man sentenced 8 years prison conspiracy distribute fentanyl resulting overdose
- justice.govFresno county man pleads guilty conspiring distribute fentanyl
- abc30.comClovis man pleads selling fentanyl killed young woman
Sources checked 5 October 2026. If something here is wrong or out of date, please tell us.