Case DIH-1232
Chiquita Roberts
While both were held in the Crittenden County Detention Center in West Memphis, Arkansas, slid contraband under the cell door of a 40-year-old woman, who was found unresponsive shortly afterwards on November 2, 2023, and died of fentanyl and cocaine toxicity.
- Court
- State, Crittenden County
- State
- Arkansas
- Year of death
- 2023
- Year sentenced
- 2025
- Drugs
- Fentanyl; cocaine
- Conduct
- Unknown
- Relationship
- Other (see detail)
- Conviction
- First-degree death by delivery
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 10 years in prison, plus 10 years' suspended imposition of sentence
- Found through
- State prosecutor and news search, October 2026
This case was brought under Arkansas law. For what that law says, see Arkansas in the state law guide.
Sources
- dps.arkansas.govCrittenden county woman sentenced in death by delivery case
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