Case DIH-0751

Alexander Michael Randise

Federal · California · Sentenced 2023

Gave four counterfeit M30 pills laced with fentanyl to a 30-year-old Ocean Beach man in December 2021, after selling him such pills for at least a year and once warning him they were "really strong"; the man died.

Court
Federal, Southern District of California
State
California
Year of death
2021
Year sentenced
2023
Drugs
Fentanyl (counterfeit oxycodone pills)
Conduct
Commercial sale
Relationship
Not reported
Conviction
Distribution of fentanyl
Plea or trial
Plea
Sentence
188 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

  1. justice.govOcean beach drug dealer sentenced more 15 years his role fatal overdose

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