Case DIH-0367
Navarius Westberry
Led an organization bringing heroin and fentanyl from Detroit to Richmond and Lexington; fentanyl he distributed caused a Madison County man's death. The release calls it the first life sentence in eastern Kentucky for a fentanyl overdose.
- Court
- Federal, Eastern District of Kentucky
- State
- Kentucky
- Year sentenced
- 2017
- Drugs
- Fentanyl; heroin
- Conduct
- Upstream supplier
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- Life imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Kentucky’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Kentucky in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govLeader drug trafficking ring sentenced life distributing fentanyl caused overdose death
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