Case DIH-0808

Garson E. Butcher

Federal · New York · Sentenced 2023

With Alisha Centi, sold fentanyl in Jamestown in March 2020 that killed a person; a buyer of their heroin that September overdosed and was revived.

Court
Federal, Western District of New York
State
New York
Year of death
2020
Year sentenced
2023
Drugs
Fentanyl
Conduct
Commercial sale
Relationship
Not reported
Conviction
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute heroin, fentanyl and methamphetamine
Plea or trial
Not reported in reviewed source
Sentence
240 months imprisonment
Found through
Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026

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

Sources

  1. justice.govThree jamestown residents going prison two separate cases selling fentanyl led death

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