Nedrick Lamont Johnson, Heroin Conspiracy, Virginia 2018

Alexandria, Va. – A Sterling man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in a heroin conspiracy that led to at least two fatal overdoses and one non-fatal overdose.

Nedrick Lamont Johnson, 42, was found guilty of conspiracy to distribute more than a kilogram of heroin. The crimes took place in Loudoun and Fairfax counties.

According to court documents, Johnson led a heroin conspiracy that distributed narcotics in Loudoun and Fairfax counties. He and five co-conspirators obtained heroin from sources in Baltimore and the District of Columbia. Johnson personally repackaged the narcotics for street-level sales and arranged transactions with users.

In March 2018, Johnson personally distributed $400 of heroin to a buyer, referred to as L.R., at her home in Herndon. During this transaction, Johnson observed that L.R. was highly-impaired, but nonetheless sold her the drugs. L.R. was found dead in her home two days later. She had died of mixed drug intoxication.

In January 2019, Johnson distributed fentanyl to one of his co-conspirators to sell to a customer. The customer ingested these drugs, overdosed, and then drove their car into a parked vehicle in Sterling. Loudoun County deputies revived this customer through CPR and administration of Narcan.

In February 2019, Johnson distributed fentanyl to one of his co-conspirators to sell to a user. That customer, referred to as K.P., ingested the narcotics along with other drugs that he had obtained from a second source. K.P. died shortly thereafter of mixed drug intoxication.

Nedrick Lamont Johnson, the Sterling man, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in the heroin conspiracy. The sentencing took place in Alexandria, Va.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Marc J. Birnbaum. G. Zachary Terwilliger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; Jesse R. Fong, Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Washington Field Division; and Michael L. Chapman, Loudoun County Sheriff, made the announcement after sentencing.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/heroin-dealer-sentenced-prison-fatal-drug-overdoses