Case DIH-0251
Don Carnell Batchelor Jr.
His friend asked him to get cocaine and fentanyl; Batchelor obtained them and gave them to him. The friend took them to his parents' home, used some, and was found dead the next morning.
- Court
- Federal, Eastern District of Virginia
- State
- Virginia
- Year of death
- 2021
- Year sentenced
- 2025
- Drugs
- Cocaine; fentanyl
- Conduct
- Intermediary
- Relationship
- Friend
- Conviction
- Distribution of cocaine and fentanyl
- Plea or trial
- Not recorded
- Sentence
- 5 years
- Found through
- Found during research — not in either original list
This was a federal prosecution. For what Virginia’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Virginia in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govGoochland man sentenced five years prison providing cocaine and fentanyl caused
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