Case DIH-1956
Marcus Michael Takaya Poydras
Sold about 90 counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl to a drug dealer on January 22, 2020, telling him they were real; the dealer sold 20 of them for $340 in a mall parking lot in Marina del Rey, California, to a buyer who died of an overdose after taking some.
- Court
- Federal, Central District of California
- State
- California
- Year of death
- 2020
- Year sentenced
- 2025
- Drugs
- Fentanyl (counterfeit oxycodone pills)
- Conduct
- Upstream supplier
- Relationship
- No direct contact
- Conviction
- Distribution of fentanyl resulting in death
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- Just over 10 years in federal prison (exact term not reported)
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what California’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see California in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govRedondo beach man pleads guilty selling fentanyl laced oxycodone pills ultimately
- patch.comSouth bay man who sold fatal dose fentantyl sentenced
Sources checked 8 October 2026. If something here is wrong or out of date, please tell us.