Case DIH-0894

Roosevelt T. Taylor

Federal · Wisconsin · Sentenced 2024

A self-described "middler" who connected customers with a larger dealer and put hundreds of counterfeit Percocet pills containing fentanyl into circulation around Green Bay in 2023; he supplied pills to a 17-year-old girl who died of fentanyl toxicity. He was on supervision in three felony cases at the time.

Court
Federal, Eastern District of Wisconsin
State
Wisconsin
Year of death
2023
Year sentenced
2024
Drugs
Fentanyl (counterfeit Percocet pills)
Conduct
Intermediary
Relationship
Not reported
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 Wisconsin’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Wisconsin in the state law guide.

Sources

  1. justice.govGreen bay man sentenced 20 years prison dealing fentanyl resulting death 17 year old

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