Man sentenced to prison for supplying fentanyl in Larimer County man’s fatal overdose

An Evans man was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to supplying the fentanyl that led to a Lyons man’s fatal overdose last October.

Jason Wahlstrom, now 38, was sentenced Monday after previously pleading guilty to fentanyl distribution resulting in death, a Class 1 drug felony, for supplying the fentanyl powder that killed 27-year-old Rudy Morriese of Lyons.

In early October 2023 , Larimer County Sheriff’s Office investigators responded to a home in Lyons after a woman called 911 to report that her male relative was unresponsive, according to a news release from the time of Morriese’s death. When first responders arrived, they found him deceased…

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