Case DIH-1968
Ricco Lamonte Maye
Led a Columbus, Ohio, drug and sex trafficking ring; in November 2018 a man who had bought cocaine from him for years sought cocaine again, and a co-conspirator gave him a fatal dose of fentanyl from Maye's stash instead.
- Court
- Federal, Southern District of Ohio
- State
- Ohio
- Year of death
- 2018
- Year sentenced
- 2025
- Drugs
- Fentanyl
- Conduct
- Upstream supplier
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Providing fentanyl that resulted in an overdose death; leading drug, sex trafficking and financial fraud conspiracies; obstruction and witness tampering (14 counts)
- Plea or trial
- Trial
- Sentence
- Life in prison (mandatory on the death count because of a prior federal drug conviction)
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Ohio’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Ohio in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govColumbus man sentenced life prison leading narcotics sex trafficking financial fraud
- justice.govJury finds columbus man guilty leading narcotics sex trafficking financial fraud
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