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A Reston man was sentenced in federal court Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to selling fentanyl to a man who later died of an overdose. (Shutterstock)
ALEXANDRIA, VA A Reston man was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to 12 years in prison for selling fentanyl to a customer who later died of an overdose, according to a U.S. Department of Justice release.
Peter Andrew Romm, 36, of Reston, made frequent trips to Baltimore in order to buy heroin and fentanyl, which he then sold in Northern Virginia, according to court documents. The drugs were sold in two forms: folded in slips of paper and encased in small plastic capsules.
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A Reston man was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Wednesday (April 21) for selling fentanyl to an individual who later succumbed to a fatal overdose on the drug.
Peter Andrew Romm, 36, regularly traveled to Baltimore to purchase heroin and fentanyl, which he sold in Northern Virginia, according to federal court documents.
Court documents identified one of Romm’s customers as “N.G.,” the individual who suffered the fatal overdose after consuming fentanyl purchased through a middleman, Tyler Huston, 28, on Oct. 7, 2019. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined that N.G. died by acute fentanyl poisoning.
“The defendant’s fentanyl trafficking significantly endangered our communities and caused victim N.G. to suffer a tragic overdose,” Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Raj Parekh said in a press release.