Case DIH-0798
Chauncey Lamont Montague
Sold $20 of what was supposed to be heroin in Danville in October 2019 to a relative buying it for a woman; she used it and was found dead of a fentanyl overdose a short time later.
- Court
- Federal, Western District of Virginia
- State
- Virginia
- Year of death
- 2019
- Year sentenced
- 2023
- Drugs
- Fentanyl (sold as heroin)
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- No direct contact
- Conviction
- Distribution of fentanyl
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 144 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.govDanville man who sold fatal dose fentanyl sentenced 12 years
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