Case DIH-0763
Quinton O'Bryan Adaway
Gave several capsules of fentanyl to a friend he had known for years, warning they were stronger than usual, behind his Ballwin home in July 2020; the friend took them in his car and died, and Adaway hid the body in the backyard. He served a separate state sentence for abandoning a corpse.
- Court
- Federal, Eastern District of Missouri
- State
- Missouri
- Year of death
- 2020
- Year sentenced
- 2023
- Drugs
- Fentanyl (capsules)
- Conduct
- Unknown
- Relationship
- Friend
- Conviction
- Distribution of fentanyl
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 120 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Missouri’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Missouri in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govBallwin man sentenced 10 years prison supplying fatal dose fentanyl
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