Case DIH-0800
Ray Bustamante
Mailed methamphetamine from Long Beach to people he met online; methamphetamine he sent to Dr. John Robert Muriello and Eric Johnathan Hojka in Iowa City killed a man in Hojka's apartment in May 2021.
- Court
- Federal, Southern District of Iowa
- State
- Iowa
- Year of death
- 2021
- Year sentenced
- 2023
- Drugs
- Methamphetamine
- Conduct
- Upstream supplier
- Relationship
- No direct contact
- Conviction
- Conspiracy to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine resulting in death
- Plea or trial
- Not reported in reviewed source
- Sentence
- 144 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Iowa’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Iowa in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govCalifornia man sentenced federal prison conspiracy distribute methamphetamine
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