Case DIH-2035

Sarah Katherine Magid

Federal · Maryland · Sentenced 2026

A Burtonsville, Maryland, schoolteacher; in March 2024 she distributed fentanyl to a person after a text exchange and meeting, and the person was found dead of fentanyl toxicity.

Court
Federal, District of Maryland
State
Maryland
Year of death
2024
Year sentenced
2026
Drugs
Fentanyl
Conduct
Commercial sale
Relationship
Not reported
Conviction
Conspiracy to distribute fentanyl (death resulted)
Plea or trial
Not reported in reviewed source
Sentence
151 months in prison
Found through
Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026

This was a federal prosecution. For what Maryland’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Maryland in the state law guide.

Sources

  1. justice.govMontgomery county schoolteacher sentenced more decade prison trafficking fentanyl

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