Case DIH-1076
Alaa Mohammed Allawi
Made counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl in San Antonio and sold more than 350,000 on the dark web for cryptocurrency; pills two Camp Lejeune Marines bought from him killed a fellow Marine in April 2017, and two people in Grand Forks, North Dakota, overdosed but survived. Ordered to pay a $14.32 million money judgment.
- Court
- Federal, Western District of Texas
- State
- Texas
- Year of death
- 2017
- Year sentenced
- 2019
- Drugs
- Fentanyl (counterfeit oxycodone pills)
- Conduct
- Upstream supplier
- Relationship
- No direct contact
- Conviction
- Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl resulting in death or serious bodily injury; using a gun during a drug crime; money laundering conspiracy
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 360 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.govFentanyl distributor who used dark web and crypto currency furtherance his criminal
- justice.govFormer camp lejeune marine pleads guilty distributing oxycodone and fentanyl linked
Sources checked 8 October 2026. If something here is wrong or out of date, please tell us.