South Bay Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Teen Boy’s Fentanyl Death

Prosecutors said the teen believed the pills he bought from the man were “authentic pharmaceutical pills that contained the opioid oxycodone.”

Tablets believed to be laced with fentanyl are displayed at the Drug Enforcement Administration Northeast Regional Laboratory in New York on Oct. 8, 2019. Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images

LOS ANGELES—A Rolling Hills man was sentenced Dec. 1 to 20 years in federal prison for providing fentanyl-laced pills to a 15-year-old boy who ate them and died.

Alexander Declan Bell Wilson, 22, was convicted in May after a five-day trial of distribution of fentanyl resulting in death, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.