Case DIH-0547
Justin McBride
Part of a family-run heroin and fentanyl ring in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County from 2014 to 2017. Sold fentanyl to a person who died in October 2016, and as part of his plea accepted responsibility for a second death, in January 2017.
- Court
- Federal, Western District of Pennsylvania
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Year of death
- 2016
- Year sentenced
- 2019
- Drugs
- Fentanyl; heroin
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and heroin; distribution of fentanyl resulting in death
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 276 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Pennsylvania’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Pennsylvania in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govPittsburgh man sentenced 23 years prison running drug trafficking ring and distributing
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