Case DIH-0803
Kenneth James Hughes Jr.
Sold two counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl to a customer in October 2020; the customer was found unresponsive at his Winchester home the next morning and died of acute fentanyl intoxication.
- Court
- Federal, Western District of Virginia
- State
- Virginia
- Year of death
- 2020
- Year sentenced
- 2023
- Drugs
- Fentanyl (counterfeit oxycodone pills)
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Distribution of fentanyl (two counts)
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 84 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.govWinchester man sentenced 84 months selling fatal dose fentanyl
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