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Larry Jerome Eastman, 23, of Temple Hills, and his sister, DC resident Justice Michelle Eastman, 26, have been sentenced after admitting to selling fake prescription pills that led to the fatal overdose of a 20-year-old woman in 2021 who had a history of drug problems.
Larry Eastman was sentenced to 140 months, and his sister was hit with 37 months behind bars. Both were also ordered to serve 36 months of supervised release when they get out of prison.
Prosecutors said that the Eastmans were linked to the fatal overdose when investigators reviewed their victim’s phone following her death, which revealed text messages from the day before her death with Larry Eastman asking for “jammers,” which is “a street term that often refers to counterfeit blue Oxycodone pills that contain fentanyl,” according to officials.
Eastman directed his victim to an address in Washington, DC, and requested that the woman make a payment to a Cashapp account registered to his sister.
Additional communication between the victim and Eastman was also recovered, which dated back to September 2020, the time their conspiracy was launched, officials said.
According to the government's evidence, the Southeast Washington, DC woman who was killed by the duo’s fentanyl-laced pills that were purported oxycodone, had suffered an earlier overdose in November 2020 and had to be revived by paramedics using Narcan.
There was no Narcan this time.
On the day her body was found, white powder was discovered on a coffee table at the 20-year-old woman’s DC apartment, officlas said. The DEA analyzed the powder and determined it was fentanyl.
An autopsy from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined that her cause of death was “acute fentanyl intoxication.”
Many of the Fentanyl pills being peddled contain fatal doses of the drug,” US Attorney Matthew Graves stated. “Nevertheless, this brother and sister were willing to flood our streets with this poison.
"Larry Eastman’s actions directly led to the death of a young woman."
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