Case DIH-0793

Andrew Cooper

Federal · District of Columbia · Sentenced 2023

Sold fentanyl from his home in Washington's Ivy City neighborhood in 2021; a woman who had been buying from him for herself and a male friend came back to Virginia in February 2021 to find the friend dead of fentanyl.

Court
Federal, District of Columbia
State
District of Columbia
Year of death
2021
Year sentenced
2023
Drugs
Fentanyl
Conduct
Commercial sale
Relationship
Not reported
Conviction
Distribution of fentanyl
Plea or trial
Plea
Sentence
192 months imprisonment
Found through
Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026

This was a federal prosecution. For what District of Columbia’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see District of Columbia in the state law guide.

Sources

  1. justice.govDistrict man sentenced distributing fentanyl which resulted death virginia consumer

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