Case DIH-0583
Anthony P. Tognietti
A Camp Lejeune Marine sergeant who bought pills on the dark web with Marcos Jamie Villegas; Villegas gave some to a 20-year-old fellow Marine at a party in Richlands in April 2017, and he died of a fentanyl overdose.
- Court
- Federal, Eastern District of North Carolina
- State
- North Carolina
- Year of death
- 2017
- Year sentenced
- 2019
- Drugs
- Fentanyl (pills advertised as oxycodone)
- Conduct
- Unknown
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Distributing oxycodone and fentanyl; aiding and abetting
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 36 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what North Carolina’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see North Carolina in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govTwo former camp lejeune marines sentenced federal prison distributing oxycodone and
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