Case DIH-1005

Pasqual Perez Duckett

Federal · South Carolina · Sentenced 2025

Made thousands of counterfeit Percocet and oxycodone pills containing fentanyl from pill binder shipped to his home; in August 2023 he distributed one to a 28-year-old Columbia woman, who was found dead the next morning. He then tried to distance himself, deleting texts and moving his car, and kept selling the pills.

Court
Federal, District of South Carolina
State
South Carolina
Year of death
2023
Year sentenced
2025
Drugs
Fentanyl (counterfeit Percocet pills)
Conduct
Unknown
Relationship
Not reported
Conviction
Distribution of fentanyl resulting in death
Plea or trial
Not reported in reviewed source
Sentence
240 months imprisonment
Found through
Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026

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

Sources

  1. justice.govDrug trafficker sentenced 20 years distributing counterfeit fentanyl pills resulting

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