Case DIH-0685
Michael Kerlin
Owner of a Newport News propane business who distributed heroin to two young women at his Seaford home: one died in the hospital in November 2015 after he called 911; the other died at his house in May 2016, and instead of calling for help he left her body in a garbage can at his business.
- Court
- Federal, Eastern District of Virginia
- State
- Virginia
- Year of death
- 2015
- Year sentenced
- 2021
- Drugs
- Heroin
- Conduct
- Unknown
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Distribution of heroin (deaths resulted); firearm possession by an unlawful drug user; maintaining a drug-involved premises
- Plea or trial
- Not reported in reviewed source
- Sentence
- 204 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Virginia’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Virginia in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govYork county man sentenced distributing heroin women who died drug overdoses
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