Case DIH-1065

Cortell Randolph

Federal · Arkansas · Sentenced 2024

Sold fentanyl at a Little Rock hotel on June 27, 2023, to a person who had been given his number by an associate at a drug rehabilitation facility; the person died, and he was arrested the next day when he came back to the hotel to sell more.

Court
Federal, Eastern District of Arkansas
State
Arkansas
Year of death
2023
Year sentenced
2024
Drugs
Fentanyl
Conduct
Commercial sale
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 Arkansas’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Arkansas in the state law guide.

Sources

  1. justice.govTwo men who conspired distribute fentanyl proved deadly each sentenced least 20 years

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