Case DIH-0616
Caleb Wade Sexton
Sold heroin and fentanyl in March 2019 to a person who overdosed and died after using them.
- Court
- Federal, District of South Carolina
- State
- South Carolina
- Year of death
- 2019
- Year sentenced
- 2020
- Drugs
- Heroin; fentanyl
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Distribution of heroin and fentanyl resulting in death
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 188 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what South Carolina’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see South Carolina in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govMyrtle beach man sentenced more 15 years federal prison selling heroin caused overdose
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