Case DIH-0207
Wyzier Peterson
Pleaded guilty to distributing fentanyl in connection with a person's overdose death; the release gives no further detail.
- Court
- Federal, District of New Jersey
- State
- New Jersey
- Year of death
- 2019
- Year sentenced
- 2023
- Drugs
- Heroin; fentanyl
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Distribution of fentanyl
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 150 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release survey 2020–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what New Jersey’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see New Jersey in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govPassaic county man sentenced 150 months prison distributing fentanyl led overdose death
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