Case DIH-0539

Jonathan Barrett

Federal · Tennessee · Sentenced 2019

Sold the counterfeit fentanyl pills around Murfreesboro and kept selling them after learning that buyers had overdosed and one had possibly died, in July 2016.

Court
Federal, Middle District of Tennessee
State
Tennessee
Year of death
2016
Year sentenced
2019
Drugs
Fentanyl (counterfeit Percocet pills)
Conduct
Commercial sale
Relationship
Not reported
Conviction
Fentanyl distribution conspiracy resulting in death
Plea or trial
Trial
Sentence
276 months imprisonment
Found through
Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026

This was a federal prosecution. For what Tennessee’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Tennessee in the state law guide.

Sources

  1. justice.govSix sentenced federal prison deadly fentanyl distribution conspiracy

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