Case DIH-1922

Jacob Daniel Pimentel-Hernandez

Federal · New York · Sentenced 2022

Sold fentanyl on June 2, 2021 to two people at a gas station on North Clinton Avenue in Rochester, New York; one never regained consciousness and died the next day.

Court
Federal, Western District of New York
State
New York
Year of death
2021
Year sentenced
2022
Drugs
Fentanyl
Conduct
Commercial sale
Relationship
Not reported
Conviction
Possession with intent to distribute fentanyl (death resulted); carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking crime
Plea or trial
Not reported in reviewed source
Sentence
188 months in prison
Found through
Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026

This was a federal prosecution. For what New York’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see New York in the state law guide.

Sources

  1. justice.govRochester man going prison more 15 years fatal fentanyl overdose

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