Case DIH-0741
Justin Gale Mata
Sold fentanyl at a casino in January 2021, in a deal Everett Justin Curtis arranged, to a Cal Fire firefighter who died early the next morning; admitted supplying the fentanyl that caused the death.
- Court
- Federal, Southern District of California
- State
- California
- Year of death
- 2021
- Year sentenced
- 2022
- Drugs
- Fentanyl
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Distribution of fentanyl
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 180 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.govPoway men sentenced fentanyl overdose death firefighter
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