GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. ( KREX ) – The Phoenix drug dealer who sold fentanyl that resulted in the death of a Mesa County jail inmate was sentenced Thursday.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado, Jeremiah Robinson, 44, was sentenced to over 19 1/2 years in prison followed by four years of supervision. He plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute over 40 grams of fentanyl.
Robinson – who was a longtime drug dealer and six-time convicted felon – “repeatedly” sold drugs to Efrain Velez, also a dealer who traveled from Mesa County to purchase from Robinson, the press release said…