Case DIH-0530
Medin Kosic
The primary supplier of a Staten Island heroin conspiracy; heroin laced with fentanyl that a co-conspirator, Paul Van Manen, sold killed a 26-year-old man in December 2017.
- Court
- Federal, Southern District of New York
- State
- New York
- Year of death
- 2017
- Year sentenced
- 2019
- Drugs
- Heroin with fentanyl
- Conduct
- Upstream supplier
- Relationship
- No direct contact
- Conviction
- Heroin and fentanyl distribution conspiracy (death resulted)
- Plea or trial
- Not reported in reviewed source
- Sentence
- 168 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.govStaten island heroin dealer convicted manhattan federal court overdose death 26 year
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