Case DIH-0376
Leroy Shuarod Steele
Sold fentanyl obtained from China in Akron; it caused a person's fatal overdose in March 2016.
- Court
- Federal, Northern District of Ohio
- State
- Ohio
- Year of death
- 2016
- Year sentenced
- 2017
- Drugs
- Fentanyl
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl; distribution of fentanyl
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 240 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Ohio’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Ohio in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govAkron man sentenced 20 years prison selling fentanyl obtained china resulted fatal
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