Case DIH-0229
Steven Jones
Sold fentanyl-laced heroin to the mother of one of his children; she was found dead in her bedroom the next morning. He deleted his Facebook account that day and kept selling.
- Court
- Federal, Southern District of New York
- State
- New York
- Year sentenced
- 2024
- Drugs
- Heroin; fentanyl
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Former partner
- Conviction
- Not reported in reviewed source
- Plea or trial
- Plea, November 29, 2021
- Sentence
- 200 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.govSullivan county heroin dealer sentenced 200 months prison overdose 26 year old woman
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