Case DIH-0141
Ryan Cooley
Bought about 50 pressed pills from a supplier and sold them to Sturgill, who passed them to the person who died.
- Court
- Federal, Eastern District of Kentucky
- State
- Kentucky
- Year of death
- 2025
- Year sentenced
- 2026
- Drugs
- Fentanyl
- Conduct
- Intermediary
- Relationship
- No direct contact
- Conviction
- Fentanyl distribution resulting in death
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 12-1/2 years in prison
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release survey 2020–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Kentucky’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Kentucky in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govFinal two defendants sentenced fentanyl distribution resulting overdose death
- justice.govCincinnati man sentenced fentanyl distribution leading overdose death 0
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