Makeda Atkinson, 46, change into sentenced Tuesday to assist 15½ years in federal detention heart, in accordance to online court docket recordsdata. Donald Adams, 63, had beforehand been sentenced in January to assist 10½ years.
The two males, every from the port metropolis of Brunswick, had pleaded responsible to conspiracy to possess a managed substance with intent to distribute, prosecutors acknowledged in a news open. They had been every ordered to assist three years of supervised open after ending their detention heart phrases.
“Makeda Atkinson and Donald Adams had been diminutive-time drug sellers till their poison fueled the overdose loss of life of a young mother whose physique change into found by her 5-year-ancient daughter,” U.S. Attorney Bobby Christine acknowledged within the open. “Her loss of life could well presumably also fair still assist as a be-careful call for other drug users to own a look at attend — and as a warning to drug traffickers that we are in a position to gather and prosecute them.”
The 32-year-ancient lady, who had bought medication from the pair on Dec. 28, 2017, change into found pointless in her other americans’ residence the following day, prosecutors acknowledged. An put up-mortem definite she died from acute fentanyl toxicity.
An investigation by the Glynn County Police Department and the FBI linked her loss of life to heroin laced with fentanyl that Atkinson and Adams had been promoting within the Brunswick location, prosecutors acknowledged.
The two males “played a necessary role within the loss of life of a young mother poisoned by the medication they had been pushing,” acknowledged Special Agent in Cost Chris Hacker, who leads the FBI’s Atlanta articulate of enterprise.
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