Man sentenced to more than 27 years in 2019 fentanyl death of Cuyahoga Falls resident
A Cleveland man has been sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for supplying the fentanyl that killed a Cuyahoga Falls resident in 2019.
Devonte L. Fellows, 26, of Cleveland, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Donald C. Nugent after his conviction of distributing fentanyl to the victim, identified in court documents by the initials A.T.
According to court documents and evidence presented at a trial in April 2019, detectives with the Cuyahoga Falls Police Department began an investigation into the overdose death of an individual found unresponsive in a Cuyahoga Falls residence. During the investigation, authorities recovered from the residence a substance that contained fentanyl.
The Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office performed an autopsy of the victim and determined the cause of death was acute fentanyl toxicity. Court records state that investigators later determined that Fellows knowingly and intentionally distributed the fentanyl to the victim, who later ingested it, overdosed and died.
Following an investigation by the Cuyahoga Falls police and FBI, Fellows was indicted more than a year after the death and was arrested in October 2020.
After a four-day trial, a jury convicted Fellows of one count of distribution of fentanyl, which contained a sentencing enhancement due to the death of an individual resulting from the distribution of the controlled substance.
Nugent sentenced Fellows to 327 months, or just over 27 years, with credit for time served.
This article originally appeared on Akron Beacon Journal: Man who supplied fentanyl in Cuyahoga Falls death gets 27 years
