Two drug dealers accused of providing fentanyl that killed teenagers in the Fort Worth area were sentenced this week in separate cases, authorities said.
One case was in federal court and the other in Tarrant County court.
Ladraelyn Bolar, 34, sold fentanyl to an 18-year-old woman who died of an overdose, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas said in a news release. He was sentenced on Tuesday, Dec. 17, to 17 years in federal prison.
Bolar was charged via criminal complaint in April, and he pleaded guilty in July to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl.
Bolar admitted he conspired with others to distribute fentanyl, according to court documents. He admitted he sold blue M-30 pills that contained the deadly drug to an undercover ATF agent on March 25.
A confidential informant introduced the agent to Bolar and accompanied him to a parking lot in Fort Worth, where Bolar sold the agent 100 pills for $250, authorities said. Later in the day, Bolar offered the undercover agent a “k-pack” of 1,000 fentanyl pills, and the agent then bought 900 more pills for $1,400.