Case DIH-2184
Richard E. Wajda
A Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, man who sold about 85 fentanyl patches and 420 alprazolam tablets to a Boise, Idaho, resident for about $6,000 during a visit in early March 2017; the buyer died between March 8 and 10, 2017 of alprazolam and fentanyl intoxication.
- Court
- Federal, District of Idaho
- State
- Idaho
- Year of death
- 2017
- Year sentenced
- 2020
- Drugs
- Fentanyl (patches); alprazolam
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Distribution of a controlled substance
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 24 months in prison
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Idaho’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Idaho in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govPennsylvania man sentenced drug distribution case
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