Case DIH-0778
Reza Hashemi
Distributed more than 400 grams of fentanyl in Northern Virginia in 2020 and 2021; he admitted giving counterfeit fentanyl pills to a 22-year-old man who died in Vienna in October 2020, kept dealing after police told him of the death, and in May 2021 distributed powder fentanyl in Alexandria that killed a 26-year-old.
- Court
- Federal, Eastern District of Virginia
- State
- Virginia
- Year of death
- 2020
- Year sentenced
- 2023
- Drugs
- Fentanyl (counterfeit pills and powder)
- Conduct
- Unknown
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl resulting in death
- Plea or trial
- Not reported in reviewed source
- Sentence
- 180 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Virginia’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Virginia in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govAlexandria man sentenced fatal fentanyl trafficking conspiracy
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