Case DIH-0594
Rodney Cox
Delivered the heroin capsules that killed a person near Newark, Delaware, in August 2017; arrested after the death investigation.
- Court
- Federal, District of Delaware
- State
- Delaware
- Year of death
- 2017
- Drugs
- Heroin (in capsules)
- Conduct
- Unknown
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Not reported in reviewed source
- Plea or trial
- Not reported in reviewed source
- Sentence
- 51 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Delaware’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Delaware in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govPhiladelphia drug dealer sentenced 10 years federal prison supplying deadly heroin newark
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