Davenport, IA- A Chicago man has been sentenced to over 24 years in prison for a drug conspiracy that resulted in his girlfriend’s death.
25-year-old Antonio Larvell Thomas of Chicago was sentenced Tuesday, May 17th to 294 months in prison for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance Resulting in Death.
According to court documents, in 2019 law enforcement began investigating Thomas for his involvement in a heroin and methamphetamine conspiracy operating in the Quad Cities area.
Multiple controlled buys were conducted where Thomas arranged to distribute fentanyl purported to be heroin to a cooperating individual. Thomas was implicated in multiple drug and gun seizures conducted by law enforcement.
On January 5, 2020, Thomas’s girlfriend was found unresponsive in a Davenport hotel room she shared with Thomas. She was pronounced dead and an autopsy revealed she died of a fentanyl overdose. The fentanyl she ingested belonged to Thomas. Thomas was arrested in possession of additional fentanyl.
On December 18, 2020, Thomas pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge and admitted that death resulted from the fentanyl he was distributing.
