Drug dealer gets 327-month sentence after fentanyl kills Cuyahoga Falls resident

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – America Division of Justice mentioned a drug vendor will spend almost three a long time behind bars for promoting fentanyl that killed a Cuyahoga Falls resident.

Federal court docket data present Devonte L. Fellows, of Cleveland, obtained a sentence Thursday of 327 months, which is greater than 27 years.

The Division of Justice mentioned Cuyahoga Falls police started investigating in April of 2019 after the resident’s overdose dying.

The sufferer had been discovered unresponsive in a house the place a substance containing fentanyl was recovered, the Division of Justice mentioned.

In response to the Division of Justice, the Summit County Medical Examiner’s Workplace decided the resident died of acute fentanyl toxicity.

Cuyahoga Falls investigators discovered that Fellows, 26, “knowingly and deliberately distributed the fentanyl to the sufferer,” the Division of Justice mentioned.

He was arrested in Oct. of 2020, in response to court docket data.

Data present a federal jury convicted Fellows of fentanyl distribution in March, and the Division of Justice mentioned his sentence was enhanced as a result of the sale resulted in a dying.

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