Case DIH-0051
Michael Steen
Admitted selling more than 500 grams of fentanyl in 2018, including the supply that caused a 33-year-old woman's fatal overdose.
- Court
- Federal, Southern District of California
- State
- California
- Year of death
- 2018
- Year sentenced
- 2020
- Drugs
- Fentanyl
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Conspiracy to distribute fentanyl
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 148 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.govDrug dealer receives 12 year sentence fentanyl overdose death
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