Detroit man sentenced to 10 years for selling deadly tranquilizer carfentanil
A Michigan man was sentenced last week to 10 years in federal prison for selling an elephant-tranquilizer drug that killed one Beaver County resident and seriously injured another roughly three years ago.
Reginald Davis, 32, of Detroit, was convicted of distributing carfentanil, a synthetic opioid that is used on elephants and other large mammals. It is 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times more potent than fentanyl.
According to U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady, on Dec. 17, 2016, Davis sold carfentanil to two people who believed the drug was heroin. One of the victims, identified only as B.L., died. The other victim, known only as K.S., was revived with Narcan and survived.
Brady said Davis sold carfentanil the same day to officers with the New Brighton Area Police Department during a controlled drug buy, and possessed additional quantities of carfentanil which he intended to distribute.
Davis also was ordered to pay $3,775.60 in restitution to B.L.’s family, Brady said.
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