Case DIH-0458
Adam Scott Caward
Sold a friend a purple powder containing acetyl fentanyl after an exchange of texts in November 2016; the friend died of an overdose.
- Court
- Federal, Central District of California
- State
- California
- Year of death
- 2016
- Year sentenced
- 2018
- Drugs
- Acetyl fentanyl
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Friend
- Conviction
- Distribution of acetyl fentanyl resulting in death; possession with intent to distribute acetyl fentanyl
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 312 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what California’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see California in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govInland empire man who admitted selling fentanyl analogue resulted overdose death
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