Case DIH-1689
Leland A. MacQuarrie Jr.
Sold fentanyl to a woman found unresponsive in her backyard in February 2022, a month after an earlier overdose death in Kalkaska County, Michigan (a separate state case); he conceded she would not have died but for the fentanyl. His lawyer wrote that he misses his friend.
- Court
- Federal, Western District of Michigan
- State
- Michigan
- Year of death
- 2022
- Year sentenced
- 2025
- Drugs
- Fentanyl
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Friend
- Conviction
- Distribution of fentanyl (death resulted)
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 20 years in prison (the maximum for distribution of fentanyl), then five years of supervised release; it begins after his state term
- Found through
- State prosecutor and news search, October 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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