TAMPA, Fla. — A Tampa man may spend the rest of his life in prison after selling a fatal dose of Fentanyl, telling the buyer it was heroin, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
Corey Damond Smith Jr., 23, was convicted Tuesday of distributing fentanyl resulting in death. He will be sentenced June 6.
According to testimony and evidence, Smith sold the Fentanyl on Nov. 13 to a woman. She took the drugs to her boyfriend, 46-year-old Bradley Dykes, and helped him use them.
Dykes died from using the Fentanyl.
Smith was the first drug dealer to be charged in the death of someone who died from drugs he sold, Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said when the arrest was announced in November.
Jeffrey Rodriguez and Donald Hatch Jr. were arrested on federal charges of conspiring to distribute heroin and fentanyl and state charges of delivery of narcotics to undercover detectives.
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