Case DIH-0600
Robert K. Bell
Found a buyer for David Grimaldi's pills, set the price and arranged the meeting in a West Warwick parking lot, where Grimaldi sold three counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl; the buyer, a young Massachusetts man, died later that day.
- Court
- Federal, District of Rhode Island
- State
- Rhode Island
- Year sentenced
- 2020
- Drugs
- Fentanyl (counterfeit oxycodone pills)
- Conduct
- Intermediary
- Relationship
- Courier / broker for a seller
- Conviction
- Aiding and abetting the distribution of fentanyl
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 32 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Rhode Island’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Rhode Island in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govTwo sentenced charges fentanyl distribution resulted death
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