Alabama teen sentenced to 8 years in fentanyl overdose death of 15-year-old girl
A Mobile County teenager was sentenced to eight years behind bars in connection to the fentanyl overdose death of a 15-year-old in 2022.
On Wednesday, a judge sentenced Jackson Powell Lewis, 19, to serve 97 months in state prison for unlawful distribution of a controlled substance.
According to court records, Lewis was also sentenced to serve one year at Mobile Metro County Jail for criminally negligent homicide.
In September, a jury found Powell guilty of both charges related to her death.
Taylor was found dead Aug. 31, 2022 at her home. Adrianna, a student at Mary G. Montgomery High School, was about to turn 16 at the time of her death.
During Lewis’s trial prosecutors provided evidence demonstrating that he gave her the deadly dose of fentanyl.
The sheriff at the time told AL.com that they crushed up what they thought were opioids and were snorting them. The pills were laced with fentanyl.
Lewis will serve the sentences concurrently and will be given credit for time served.