Case DIH-0369
Roosevelt Williams
Dealt heroin extensively in and around Poughkeepsie; his plea agreement acknowledged that the heroin caused fatal and non-fatal overdoses.
- Court
- Federal, Southern District of New York
- State
- New York
- Year sentenced
- 2017
- Drugs
- Heroin
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Heroin distribution
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 144 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what New York’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see New York in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govHeroin trafficker sentenced 12 years heroin overdose deaths
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