Case DIH-0698
Jahvaris Lamoun Springfield
Sold counterfeit OxyContin pills containing fentanyl to an Army veteran in San Diego who had texted him to buy pills in February 2019; the man was found unresponsive in his bedroom that day. The longest sentence for this crime in the Southern District of California to that date.
- Court
- Federal, Southern District of California
- State
- California
- Year of death
- 2019
- Year sentenced
- 2022
- Drugs
- Fentanyl (counterfeit OxyContin pills)
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Distribution of fentanyl resulting in death
- Plea or trial
- Trial
- Sentence
- 300 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what California’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see California in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govDrug dealer sentenced 25 years prison selling fentanyl resulted death user longest 0
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