Case DIH-0735
Anthony Souza
Gave a 28-year-old Ocean Beach man four counterfeit M30 pills laced with fentanyl in November 2019 that caused a near-fatal overdose, then sold him more about six months later, and the man died. Souza kept selling afterward.
- Court
- Federal, Southern District of California
- State
- California
- Year of death
- 2020
- Year sentenced
- 2022
- Drugs
- Fentanyl (counterfeit oxycodone pills)
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 150 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.govOcean beach drug dealer sentenced 125 years his role fatal overdose
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