Case DIH-0705
DeAngelo Copeland
Sold heroin by text to a 22-year-old college student in Atlanta in April 2018 and delivered it outside the apartment where he was staying; the student died of a heroin overdose that night.
- Court
- Federal, Northern District of Georgia
- State
- Georgia
- Year of death
- 2018
- Year sentenced
- 2022
- Drugs
- Heroin
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Distribution of heroin
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 188 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026 + Hancock case files
This was a federal prosecution. For what Georgia’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Georgia in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govAtlanta drug trafficker sentenced distributing heroin killed college student
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