TAMPA, Fla. – A Tampa man will spend the next two decades in federal prison after a drug deal in Riverview turned fatal. U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington handed down a 20-year sentence to 44-year-old Brandon Lewis Graham for distributing a mixture of cocaine and fentanyl that resulted in a woman’s death.
The sentencing follows a guilty plea entered by Graham on March 31, 2025, according to an announcement by U.S. Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe.
The case traces back to March 30, 2022, when a man and a woman met Graham at a location in Riverview to purchase what they believed was cocaine. Court records show the pair later returned to the woman’s home to use the substance…