Case DIH-0605
Cynthia Marie Carrasco
An Amarillo dealer who repackaged heroin for sale; Jeffery Michael Smith bought heroin from her for an acquaintance staying with him at an Amarillo hotel, who died of it in April 2019. Carrasco admitted her heroin killed the woman.
- Court
- Federal, Northern District of Texas
- State
- Texas
- Year of death
- 2019
- Year sentenced
- 2020
- Drugs
- Heroin
- Conduct
- Upstream supplier
- Relationship
- No direct contact
- Conviction
- Possession with intent to distribute heroin resulting in death
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 240 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Texas’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Texas in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govAmarillo drug dealer who sold fatal heroin sentenced 20 years
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