Case DIH-1972
Melissa Scanlan
With Brandon Arias, sold fentanyl pills from San Diego on the Dream Market dark web marketplace as "The Drug Llama"; court records showed she aided and abetted the distribution of fentanyl pills to a woman who later died.
- Court
- Federal, Southern District of Illinois
- State
- Illinois
- Year sentenced
- 2020
- Drugs
- Fentanyl (pills)
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- No direct contact
- Conviction
- Distribution of fentanyl resulting in death (aiding and abetting); conspiracy to distribute fentanyl; five counts of distributing fentanyl; selling counterfeit and misbranded drugs; international money laundering conspiracy
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 160 months in prison
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Illinois’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Illinois in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govDark web fentanyl trafficker known drug llama sentenced 13 years federal prison
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