Case DIH-2032
Christopher Tyler
A Charleston, West Virginia, man who on August 29, 2018 sold a young woman what both believed was heroin; she died that night, and toxicology showed it was fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl. The court granted the government's request for an upward departure because of the death.
- Court
- Federal, Southern District of West Virginia
- State
- West Virginia
- Year of death
- 2018
- Year sentenced
- 2019
- Drugs
- Fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Distribution of a mixture of fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 135 months in prison
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what West Virginia’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see West Virginia in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govCharleston man sentenced distributing fentanyl
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