Case DIH-0949

Lawrence Duguett Hardin Jr.

Federal · Texas · Sentenced 2025

Supplied the fentanyl that killed a person in Humble, Texas, in August 2023; police found 365 grams of fentanyl at his home in Orange.

Court
Federal, Eastern District of Texas
State
Texas
Year of death
2023
Year sentenced
2025
Drugs
Fentanyl
Conduct
Unknown
Relationship
Not reported
Conviction
Possession with intent to distribute fentanyl
Plea or trial
Plea
Sentence
240 months imprisonment
Found through
Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026

This was a federal prosecution. For what Texas’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Texas in the state law guide.

Sources

  1. justice.govOrange texas man sentenced 20 years federal prison fatal fentanyl overdose

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