A Fulton man will spend at least 20 years behind bars after pleading guilty in federal court on a charge of distributing heroin which resulted in a death.
According to the United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, Beth Phillips, said Trevonn Lionel French, 36, pleaded guilty before a U.S. District judge to a charge contained after a Feb. 10 federal indictment.
French admitted that he distributed heroin in January that resulted in three overdoses, including one fatal overdose. He said he gave 28-year-old Summer Bond, of Fulton, heroin on Jan. 9 and she died as a result of the use of the drug.
Bond’s brother, Cody Smith, also overdosed on the drug. He told law enforcement officers he had purchased a $60 heroin nugget from French on the same day his sister died from the overdose. Smith said his sister had been purchasing heroin from French for two years.
Smith told officers that while he was at French’s residence, he injected the heroin and overdosed. French took him to the hospital. French admitted that he gave bond the syringe with what was left of heroin that caused Smith’s overdose along with an additional amount of heroin.
French’s girlfriend also told authorities that she had also received the same heroin that Bond and Smith received. She said she overdosed, stopped breathing and friends had to revive her.
The day after authorities found Bond’s body, a witness called French and he admitted knowing the heroin was potent because his girlfriend had already overdosed.
French is subject to a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years in Federal prison without parole and could be sentenced to life in prison without parole. A sentencing hearing will be scheduled in the future.
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