Case DIH-0555
Michael Napier
Distributed 1,4-butanediol, an analogue of GHB he had bought online, to a Leesburg woman who died of GHB poisoning in June 2015; text messages between them discussed the drug on the eve of her death.
- Court
- Federal, Eastern District of Virginia
- State
- Virginia
- Year of death
- 2015
- Year sentenced
- 2019
- Drugs
- 1,4-butanediol (a GHB analogue)
- Conduct
- Unknown
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Distribution of a GHB analogue (death resulted)
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 60 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Virginia’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Virginia in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govMan sentenced drug distribution caused overdose death
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