Case DIH-1002
Brandon Jerome Silas
In February 2022 a woman in the Tulsa area who had relapsed after rehab texted Silas, her friend, more than 90 times and gave him directions to her house; he arrived, she stopped answering her phone, and her boyfriend found her dead. Witnesses testified they had bought pills and fentanyl from him since 2019.
- Court
- Federal, Northern District of Oklahoma
- State
- Oklahoma
- Year of death
- 2022
- Year sentenced
- 2025
- Drugs
- Fentanyl
- Conduct
- Unknown
- Relationship
- Friend
- Conviction
- Distribution of fentanyl resulting in death; use of a communication facility (four counts); money laundering
- Plea or trial
- Trial
- Sentence
- 300 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Oklahoma’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Oklahoma in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govTulsa drug dealer sentenced 25 years after being convicted fentanyl related death 29
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