Case DIH-0797
Matthew James Holmberg
Sold fentanyl pills over social media around Spokane and Coeur d'Alene; he had delivered pills to a 15-year-old Coeur d'Alene high school student who died in May 2021, a death the judge cited at sentencing. His armed bodyguard shot and killed a would-be robber during one deal.
- Court
- Federal, District of Idaho
- State
- Idaho
- Year of death
- 2021
- Year sentenced
- 2023
- Drugs
- Fentanyl (pills)
- Conduct
- Unknown
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance; discharge of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking
- Plea or trial
- Not reported in reviewed source
- Sentence
- 228 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Idaho’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Idaho in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govWashington man sentenced involvement shooting death coeur dalene teen
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