Case DIH-0879
Jeremial Lee Leach
Advertised counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl on Snapchat as "Mel"; a 19-year-old woman who arranged to buy "blues" from him died in Evansville in June 2022, and two other women overdosed on his pills and were revived.
- Court
- Federal, Southern District of Indiana
- State
- Indiana
- Year of death
- 2022
- Year sentenced
- 2024
- Drugs
- Fentanyl (counterfeit oxycodone pills)
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Distribution of fentanyl resulting in death; distribution of fentanyl; distribution resulting in serious bodily injury
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 240 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Indiana’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Indiana in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govEvansville snapchat fentanyl dealer responsible least three overdoses and teens death
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