Two Corpus Christi brothers have been sentenced to prison for manufacturing and selling fentanyl laced pills disguised as pharmaceutical-grade pain medications, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Texas.
40-year-old Chad Williams Wesevich and his brother, 41-year-old Jamie Wesevich, pleaded guilty in August of 2023 to conspiracy to manufacture and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, conspiracy to commit money laundering and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
The brothers were sentenced 35 years total – 30 years each on the drug and money laundering charges and an additional 5 years each on the firearm charge, the release states.
During the sentencing, the court noted the brothers had a network of friends and family who had written supportive letters requesting leniency, but that those letters must be tempered against the facts that people had overdosed on these pills.
“We can’t get those people back,” Judge Morales said.