Case DIH-0678
David Landis
A former Montgomery County deputy sheriff who, in 2016 and 2017, mailed about 2,900 packages of U-47700 and fentanyl analogues to customers of a China-based online drug operation; some customers later died with the same drugs in their systems.
- Court
- Federal, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Year sentenced
- 2021
- Drugs
- U-47700; furanyl fentanyl; methoxyacetyl fentanyl
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Stranger
- Conviction
- Conspiracy to import and to distribute controlled substances; distribution resulting in serious bodily injury; 58 distribution counts; maintaining a drug-involved premises
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 180 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Pennsylvania’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Pennsylvania in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govFormer montgomery county deputy sheriff sentenced 15 years conspiring import and
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