Case DIH-0643
Shannon White
A member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians who sold drugs around Jackson and Swain Counties; in January 2019 a man ordered heroin from her, and what she supplied turned out to be fentanyl, which killed him. She kept selling afterward and falsely blamed two other people.
- Court
- Federal, Western District of North Carolina
- State
- North Carolina
- Year of death
- 2019
- Year sentenced
- 2021
- Drugs
- Fentanyl (sold as heroin)
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death
- Plea or trial
- Trial
- Sentence
- 252 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what North Carolina’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see North Carolina in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govBryson city woman sentenced 21 years distribution controlled substance resulting death
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