Green Bay man sentenced for dealing fatal dose of fentanyl to 17-year-old girl
(WFRV) – A 36-year-old Green Bay man was sentenced to prison after he pleaded guilty to distributing fentanyl to a teenager that resulted in death.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Roosevelt T. Taylor will spend the next 20 years behind bars for the crime.
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Court records show that for the last several weeks in 2023, Taylor repeatedly distributed fake Percocet “M30” pills containing fentanyl in the Green Bay area.
Taylor described himself as a “middler” who connected customers to a large drug distributor. In that role, the release says Taylor became responsible for putting hundreds of fake Percocet pills into circulation, not knowing who would ultimately ingest the potentially lethal dose of fentanyl found in about 70% of such pills.
During one fentanyl-trafficking offense, Taylor supplied “M30” pills to a 17-year-old girl, who used them and died of fentanyl toxicity.
At the time, Taylor had a lengthy criminal history, including prior jail and prison sentences, and was on supervision in three separate felony cases for robbery, burglary, and delivery of heroin.
At Taylor’s sentencing, Judge William Griesbach emphasized that trafficking fentanyl is distributing “poison.” The judge considered nationwide data that seven in ten counterfeit pills tested at DEA Crime Labs contain a lethal dose of fentanyl, that fentanyl is the leading cause of death for 18-to 45-year-olds, and that synthetic opiates like fentanyl cause over 73,000 deaths annually.
According to the DEA, illicit fentanyl remains the deadliest drug threat facing the United States. It is a highly addictive synthetic opioid that is 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine.
Just two milligrams of fentanyl, the amount that fits on the tip of a pencil, is considered a potentially deadly dose.
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The release says that the Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco Cartel in Mexico, using chemicals sourced mainly from China, are primarily responsible for most of the fentanyl that is being trafficked in communities across the United States.
No additional details were provided.
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