Case DIH-0811
Marie Um
A Montreal woman in an organization that imported fentanyl and fentanyl analogues from China; the jury found four overdose deaths and five serious injuries in North Dakota, Oregon, North Carolina and New Jersey reasonably foreseeable to her. Part of Operation Denial, which began with a January 2015 overdose death in Grand Forks.
- Court
- Federal, District of North Dakota
- State
- North Dakota
- Year of death
- 2015
- Year sentenced
- 2023
- Drugs
- Fentanyl and fentanyl analogues
- Conduct
- Upstream supplier
- Relationship
- No direct contact
- Conviction
- Conspiracy to distribute and to import controlled substances and analogues resulting in serious bodily injury and death; international money laundering conspiracy
- Plea or trial
- Trial
- Sentence
- 276 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what North Dakota’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see North Dakota in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govCanadian woman sentenced 23 years federal prison her role fentanyl overdoses across
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