Case DIH-0766
Edwin Tejeda
With his brother Jose Raymer Tejeda, ran a fentanyl and cocaine organization in the Wilkes-Barre area from 2016 to 2020; fentanyl from their dealer James Garris Jr. passed through James Tindol Jr. to a person who died in September 2019.
- Court
- Federal, Middle District of Pennsylvania
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Year of death
- 2019
- Year sentenced
- 2023
- Drugs
- Fentanyl
- Conduct
- Upstream supplier
- Relationship
- No direct contact
- Conviction
- Conspiracy to distribute cocaine and 400 grams or more of fentanyl resulting in death
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 188 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Pennsylvania’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Pennsylvania in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govWilkes barre brothers sentenced 188 months imprisonment each running fentanyl and
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