Drug Dealer Heads to Prison for Selling Fentanyl to Overdose Victim

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Tuesday sentenced a man who sold fentanyl to someone who later suffered a fatal overdose to 10 years in prison.

Dylan C. McMikle, 22, of Jackson, Missouri, provided several lines of powdered fentanyl that the 25-year-old victim snorted early on the morning of Dec. 16, 2022. The victim left McMikle's home at approximately 6 a.m., after buying a capsule containing fentanyl. The victim, who had been struggling with a serious addiction, died of fentanyl poisoning that evening.

After the victim's death, investigators found messages between the victim and McMikle about obtaining fentanyl. McMikle consented to a search of his home and officers found a small baggie of fentanyl powder and several fentanyl pills.

McMikle pleaded guilty in February to one felony count of distribution of fentanyl. Another man pleaded guilty last year and admitted buying fentanyl from McMikle.

The Drug Enforcement Administration investigated this case with the Sikeston Department of Public Safety.