Case DIH-0872
Pamela Payne
Admitted distributing a substance containing fentanyl on April 2, 2023, with Dustin Ellis and others within the Chickasaw Nation; a Grady County resident died of a fentanyl overdose the next day.
- Court
- Federal, Western District of Oklahoma
- State
- Oklahoma
- Year of death
- 2023
- Year sentenced
- 2024
- Drugs
- Fentanyl (pills)
- Conduct
- Unknown
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Distribution of fentanyl
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 100 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Oklahoma’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Oklahoma in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govFatal fentanyl overdose indian country lands four defendants federal prison more 33
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