Cincinnati fentanyl dealer hit with 18-year prison sentence

CINCINNATI — A Cincinnati drug dealer who dealt in fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana and who shot a rival dealer last year has been handed an 18-year prison sentence in U.S. District Court.

What You Need To Know

  • A fentanyl dealer in Cincinnati, who also shot a rival dealer, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison
  • Robert Lee Howard, 34, pleaded guilty in July of this year
  • He was arrested when agents conducted a search warrant at his Price Hill home

Robert Lee Howard, 34, was charged in in a criminal complaint back in June last year and pleaded guilty in July of this year, according to a press release from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio.

That release notes that Howard had been captured on camera in February last year “shooting a rival fentanyl dealer repeatedly in the chest, after losing a bet over who sold more potent fentanyl.”…

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