Case DIH-0632
Catherine Ardis
Sold hydromorphone (Dilaudid) pills from her home in Vidor, Texas; three people who bought pills there died of poly-drug toxicity before June 2019, and she admitted selling the pills that caused the deaths.
- Court
- Federal, Eastern District of Texas
- State
- Texas
- Year sentenced
- 2021
- Drugs
- Hydromorphone (Dilaudid pills)
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute hydromorphone
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 180 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.govVidor woman sentenced 15 years federal prison following opioid overdose deaths
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