(The Center Square) – Two men from Oregon received a federal prison sentence for their roles in separate fatal fentanyl overdose deaths on Tuesday.
Beaverton resident Billy Ray Trueblood, 33, received a 41-month federal prison sentence, plus four years of supervised release for distributing fentanyl that killed a man; and Monmouth resident Javen James Pedro, 71, got 75 months in federal prison, plus six years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl that killed a teenager in Salem, Oregon, according to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon.
Investigators from the Westside Interagency Narcotics Team (WIN) responded to a fatal overdose of a man in his early thirties found unresponsive by his roommates in early March 2019. An Oregon State Crime Lab autopsy confirmed the man died of a fentanyl overdose.
An investigation found that the victim became addicted to opioids because he used prescription painkillers in college to deal with sports injuries. However, the victim had been buying drugs from Trueblood since college and had been recently texting him about purchasing “blues,” which are counterfeit Oxycodone pills manufactured with fentanyl.