Case DIH-2107
Brian Landon Brown
A Lubbock, Texas, dealer, one of the largest distributors for a fentanyl-analogue ring; according to plea documents, he sold furanyl fentanyl to a 26-year-old man on October 6, 2016, and the man was found unconscious early the next morning and died of furanyl fentanyl toxicity.
- Court
- Federal, Northern District of Texas
- State
- Texas
- Year of death
- 2016
- Year sentenced
- 2017
- Drugs
- Furanyl fentanyl
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute furanyl fentanyl
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 240 months in prison
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Texas’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Texas in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govLubbock man sentenced fentanyl distribution conspiracy
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