Case DIH-0899

Katey McGruder

Federal · South Dakota · Sentenced 2024

With her husband, Curtis Cummings, brought large amounts of fentanyl from Colorado to Rapid City; fentanyl they gave Christina Sanchez in April 2022 passed to Wyatt Nygaard and killed a person minutes after Nygaard provided it.

Court
Federal, District of South Dakota
State
South Dakota
Year of death
2022
Year sentenced
2024
Drugs
Fentanyl
Conduct
Upstream supplier
Relationship
No direct contact
Conviction
Conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance 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 South Dakota’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see South Dakota in the state law guide.

Sources

  1. justice.govTwo rapid city women sentenced 20 years each federal prison conspiracy distribute

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