Case DIH-1966
Joe Paul Shultz
Admitted delivering two fentanyl pills to a person who died of an overdose on April 27, 2020; the autopsy found buprenorphine and fentanyl toxicity, and the release says his fentanyl contributed to the death. He lived in Lincoln, Nebraska.
- Court
- Federal, District of Nebraska
- State
- Nebraska
- Year of death
- 2020
- Year sentenced
- 2024
- Drugs
- Fentanyl (pills)
- Conduct
- Unknown
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl (death resulted)
- Plea or trial
- Not reported in reviewed source
- Sentence
- 114 months in prison
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Nebraska’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Nebraska in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govLincoln man sentenced conspiracy distribute fentanyl
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