Case DIH-0563
Michael Stevenson
A Dubuque dealer who sold heroin to a man the day before he died of an overdose in February 2017; the judge raised the sentence because of the death and because he kept selling afterward. Ordered to pay $13,194.59 in restitution.
- Court
- Federal, Northern District of Iowa
- State
- Iowa
- Year of death
- 2017
- Year sentenced
- 2019
- Drugs
- Heroin
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Conspiracy to distribute and distribution of heroin and crack cocaine
- Plea or trial
- Trial
- Sentence
- 200 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Iowa’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Iowa in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govDrug dealer guilty selling heroin man who died overdose sentenced 16 years federal
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