A Nashville man has been sentenced to nearly 14 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a four-count indictment charging him with distributing and possessing with the intent to distribute, fentanyl, methamphetamine, and heroin, according to the Middle District of Tennessee U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Antonio Daniels, 43, received 165 months in federal prison to be followed by five years of supervised release.
Daniels, according to information provided by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, sold fentanyl, methamphetamine, and heroin on four separate occasions to a confidential informant used by law enforcement officers during their investigation.
All four controlled purchases – a grand total of 61.3 grams of fentanyl, 394.5 grams of methamphetamine, and 7.2 grams of heroin – were made near Daniels’ residence on Lenore Street in Nashville, the U.S. Attorney’s Office notes.
“Fentanyl and other illicit drugs sold by this defendant are wreaking havoc in our communities and leaving carnage in their wake,” United States Attorney Henry C. Leventis said in a statement after Daniels was sentenced. “Today’s sentence will remove this defendant from the streets for over a decade and is the latest illustration of my office’s commitment to holding fentanyl dealers accountable.”
Daniels’ sentence comes less than a week after three individuals were arrested for conspiring to distribute over 13 pounds of fentanyl-mixed pills in Nashville, as previously reported by The Tennessee Star.
A U.S. drug overdose death tracker published by the San Francisco Chronicle shows Davidson County with one of the worst overdose death rates in the country. From May 2022 to April 2023, a total of 554 individuals died from drug overdoses in Davidson County, with approximately 80 percent of those cases involving fentanyl.
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 100 times more potent than morphine. Just two milligrams of fentanyl is capable of killing a grown adult, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
