Case DIH-0232
Cordell Antonio Mendoza
Sold drugs that killed a customer in Franklin County in 2024; two days later, on a recorded call, he described the death and said he would keep selling.
- Court
- Federal, Eastern District of North Carolina
- State
- North Carolina
- Year sentenced
- 2026
- Drugs
- Heroin; fentanyl
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Conspiracy heroin/fentanyl; distribution fentanyl resulting in death
- Plea or trial
- Plea, February 17, 2026
- Sentence
- 252 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release survey 2020–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what North Carolina’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see North Carolina in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govFranklin county drug dealer sentenced 21 years prison selling fentanyl killed man
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