Case DIH-0257
Cara L. Moss
Sold heroin with co-defendant Tyrone L. Adams from the Alton home they shared to a 23-year-old man who died of an overdose in August 2012.
- Court
- Federal, Southern District of Illinois
- State
- Illinois
- Year of death
- 2012
- Year sentenced
- 2013
- Drugs
- Heroin
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Distribution of heroin (death resulted); maintaining a drug-involved premises
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 120 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Illinois’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Illinois in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govTwo sentenced alton heroin overdose death
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