Case DIH-1033
Kai Livingston Packer
Ran online drug storefronts on Snapchat and Telegram from Oregon and Las Vegas, selling fentanyl as oxycodone and methamphetamine as Adderall; a young man in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, died in February 2023 after taking pills he ordered from him. He took payment under a stolen identity.
- Court
- Federal, Western District of Michigan
- State
- Michigan
- Year of death
- 2023
- Year sentenced
- 2026
- Drugs
- Fentanyl (counterfeit oxycodone pills)
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Stranger
- Conviction
- Distribution of fentanyl resulting in death; unlawful use of a means of identification
- Plea or trial
- Not reported in reviewed source
- Sentence
- 204 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Michigan’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Michigan in the state law guide.
Sources
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