Case DIH-1043
Kevin Chase McCauley
Sold counterfeit hydrocodone pills containing fentanyl to a person who died of an overdose at a home in Argyle, Texas, in March 2023.
- Court
- Federal, Eastern District of Texas
- State
- Texas
- Year of death
- 2023
- Year sentenced
- 2026
- Drugs
- Fentanyl (counterfeit hydrocodone pills)
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 210 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
- justice.govTarrant county man receives lengthy federal prison sentence part homeland security
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