Case DIH-0819

Jerome Middleton

Federal · Missouri · Sentenced 2023

A "runner" who bought fentanyl capsules in St. Louis for others and kept some for making the trip; he brought narcotics to a Florissant woman on the four days before she died in November 2020.

Court
Federal, Eastern District of Missouri
State
Missouri
Year of death
2020
Year sentenced
2023
Drugs
Fentanyl (capsules)
Conduct
Intermediary
Relationship
Not reported
Conviction
Distribution of fentanyl resulting in death
Plea or trial
Plea
Sentence
162 months imprisonment
Found through
Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026

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

Sources

  1. justice.govSt louis county man sentenced 13 12 years prison providing deadly fentanyl

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