Case DIH-2479
Austin Smiley
Sold the drugs to a 46-year-old man found dead of a fentanyl overdose in a Longwood, Florida, home in 2018, and to a second person who overdosed and survived. Indicted for first-degree murder, he fled and was arrested in Volusia County in January 2019.
- Court
- State, Seminole County
- State
- Florida
- Year of death
- 2018
- Year sentenced
- 2021
- Drugs
- Fentanyl
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Second-degree murder; delivery of a controlled substance (plea)
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 8 years in prison on each charge, then 7 years of probation (the judge ordered the man's photo displayed in his cell)
- Found through
- State prosecutor and news search, October 2026
This case was brought under Florida law. For what that law says, see Florida in the state law guide.
Sources
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