Case DIH-2499
Jessica Portway
A St. John the Baptist Parish woman who supplied the fentanyl pills that Rachel Portway and Tyler Saladino sold to a person in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, whose August 2023 overdose death led to the investigation; she had received the pills from someone in California.
- Court
- Federal, Eastern District of Louisiana
- State
- Louisiana
- Year of death
- 2023
- Year sentenced
- 2026
- Drugs
- Fentanyl (pills)
- Conduct
- Upstream supplier
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Drug conspiracy; drug distribution; possession with intent to distribute (plea)
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 37 months and three years of supervised release
- Found through
- State prosecutor and news search, October 2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Louisiana’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Louisiana in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govThree people st john baptist parish and jefferson parish sentenced fentanyl
Sources checked 8 October 2026. If something here is wrong or out of date, please tell us.