Case DIH-0295
Ramon Cortez Freeman
Sold heroin in Cedar Rapids to a person who died of an overdose in January 2014; ordered to pay restitution to the family.
- Court
- Federal, Northern District of Iowa
- State
- Iowa
- Year of death
- 2014
- Year sentenced
- 2015
- Drugs
- Heroin
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Distribution of heroin resulting in death; distribution of heroin; felon in possession of a firearm
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 365 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Iowa’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Iowa in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govChicago man sentenced over 30 years federal prison distributing heroin resulting
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