Case DIH-0692
Eric DeAngelo Griggs
A heroin dealer in the Waterloo area who arranged over Facebook Messenger to get heroin to a young Cedar Falls woman in August 2018; she died of acute heroin intoxication. Arrested when police, using her phone, asked him to pick her up to give her more. Ordered to pay $16,552.90 in restitution.
- Court
- Federal, Northern District of Iowa
- State
- Iowa
- Year of death
- 2018
- Year sentenced
- 2021
- Drugs
- Heroin
- Conduct
- Unknown
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Distribution of heroin resulting in death; using a communications facility to facilitate a drug crime (two counts)
- Plea or trial
- Trial
- Sentence
- 480 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Iowa’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Iowa in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govHeroin dealer sentenced 40 years causing death
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