Case DIH-1861
Carl Wayne Hite Jr.
Sold drugs containing fentanyl to a 43-year-old woman who died of fentanyl exposure in Port Arthur, Texas, on February 20, 2023.
- Court
- Federal, Eastern District of Texas
- State
- Texas
- Year of death
- 2023
- Year sentenced
- 2025
- Drugs
- Fentanyl
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Conspiracy to distribute fentanyl (death resulted)
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 228 months in prison
- Found through
- State prosecutor and news search, October 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.govJefferson county man sentenced 19 years federal prison trafficking fentanyl
- dea.govJefferson county man guilty trafficking fentanyl
Sources checked 8 October 2026. If something here is wrong or out of date, please tell us.