Case DIH-0075
Jose Santana-Gonzalez
Sold fentanyl-laced heroin to a 50-year-old man who died after taking it; the judge enhanced the sentence for the death.
- Court
- Federal, District of Delaware
- State
- Delaware
- Year of death
- 2018
- Year sentenced
- 2021
- Drugs
- Heroin; fentanyl
- Conduct
- Unknown
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Distribution of heroin containing fentanyl
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 87 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release survey 2020–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Delaware’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Delaware in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govHeroin dealer sentenced over 7 years federal prison causing overdose death
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