Case DIH-0978
Nathan Hunter Whitaker
Provided counterfeit Roxicodone pills containing fentanyl to a person who died in Sullivan County, Tennessee, in February 2023; when arrested in 2024 he had a large quantity of the pills, $13,754 and more than 130 firearms, some stolen.
- Court
- Federal, Eastern District of Tennessee
- State
- Tennessee
- Year of death
- 2023
- Year sentenced
- 2025
- Drugs
- Fentanyl (counterfeit Roxicodone pills)
- Conduct
- Unknown
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Distribution of fentanyl resulting in death
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 292 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Tennessee’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Tennessee in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govNathan hunter whitaker sentenced over 24 years fentanyl distribution related overdose
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