Case DIH-0674
Adam Dean Brown
A previously convicted dealer who sold what looked like heroin but was fentanyl to a 22-year-old man, found dead in his basement in Canton in October 2017; before he was stopped he sold fentanyl to another man, who survived.
- Court
- Federal, Eastern District of Michigan
- State
- Michigan
- Year of death
- 2017
- Year sentenced
- 2021
- Drugs
- Fentanyl (sold as heroin)
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Distribution and conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl resulting in death and serious bodily injury
- Plea or trial
- Trial
- Sentence
- Life imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Michigan’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Michigan in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govYpsilanti man sentenced life prison drug trafficking resulting death victim
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