Case DIH-0124
Carl Ravon Watkins
Sold a woman what was meant to be heroin; it was fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl, and her boyfriend found her dead hours after she used it.
- Court
- Federal, Northern District of Iowa
- State
- Iowa
- Year sentenced
- 2020
- Drugs
- Fentanyl
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Distribution of controlled substances resulting in death
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 240 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release survey 2020–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Iowa’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Iowa in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govDubuque man who sold opioids caused fatal overdose sentenced 20 years federal prison
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