Case DIH-0887
Daniel Hudson
Smuggled about six grams of fentanyl into the Franklin County Regional Jail when he was booked in March 2022 and sold it to inmates, who paid through a friend's Cash App account; one inmate was revived, and another was found dead in his cell days later.
- Court
- Federal, Eastern District of Kentucky
- State
- Kentucky
- Year of death
- 2022
- Year sentenced
- 2024
- Drugs
- Fentanyl
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Other (see detail)
- Conviction
- Distribution of fentanyl resulting in death
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 240 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Kentucky’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Kentucky in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govAnderson county man sentenced trafficking fentanyl resulting overdose death
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