PUNTA GORDA — Two men were indicted by a grand jury Thursday for allegedly selling drugs that led to a fatal overdose.
State Attorney Amira Fox announced the indictments late Thursday afternoon, noting that the two were unrelated to each other.
“We will hold people accountable to the highest extent of the law for distributing drugs…like fentanyl, that kill people,” Fox said in the press conference, held at the Charlotte County Justice Center in Punta Gorda.
The two defendants named were 37-year-old Scott Kyle Wright and 19-year-old Robert Anthony Doxen.
Wright is alleged to have made the sale of narcotics, which included fentanyl, in early April of this year, while the alleged sale that led to Doxen’s indictment took place last year.
Both men were indicted on charges of first-degree homicide by overdose, sale or delivery of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell, and use of a two-way communication device to facilitate a felony.
Fox also noted that the homicide charge is a capital felony, meaning that the death penalty is a possible sentence if convicted.