Case DIH-0213
Elijah Morales
Sold fentanyl to a man on a stairway landing, then waited about two hours before calling 911 while he lay unconscious; the man died.
- Court
- Federal, Eastern District of New York
- State
- New York
- Year sentenced
- 2025
- Drugs
- Fentanyl
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Distribution fentanyl causing death
- Plea or trial
- Not reported in reviewed source
- Sentence
- 158 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release survey 2020–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what New York’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see New York in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govBrooklyn man sentenced more 13 years imprisonment distributing fentanyl caused
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