CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – A South Hill, Virginia man, who continued dealing heroin, methamphetamine, and fentanyl from a regional jail, was sentenced this week to twenty years in federal jail.
Michael Watkins Hayer, 41, waived his proper to be indicted and pleaded responsible in October 2022 to a two-count Info charging him with distribution of fentanyl leading to demise and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Based on courtroom paperwork, Hayer started promoting fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine all through Greene and Albemarle counties in 2019, in addition to routinely touring to North Carolina to buy medication by the “brick” for resale in Virginia. Hayer used the time period “brick” to confer with a package deal of fifty particular person doses of fentanyl.
After a buyer overdosed in entrance of him, Hayer started carrying Narcan, an opioid overdose remedy, when he bought medication.
On February 18, 2022, Hayer bought a half-brick of fentanyl to a person who ingested the drug and later died of an overdose. Though he left Greene County to keep away from suspicion after this demise occurred, Hayer was stopped by the Virginia State Police whereas rushing in Greene County in April 2022. Throughout the visitors cease, Virginia State Police searched Hayer’s automobile the place they found 95 grams of methamphetamine, 50 grams of fentanyl, three firearms, and a number of rounds of ammunition. Hayer is prohibited from possessing a firearm as a consequence of a earlier felony conviction.
Whereas incarcerated on the Central Virginia Regional Jail from April 2022 by way of June 2022, Hayer continued to promote medication by recruiting each a male family member in addition to an ex-girlfriend and instructing them in the way to have interaction in drug trafficking.
Particularly, Hayer instructed them the place to go in North Carolina to fulfill his drug suppliers, in addition to the place and who to promote medication to in Greene County.
As well as, Hayer warned each people of the harmful nature of fentanyl by telling them to not contact the drug with out carrying gloves and to by no means use fentanyl themselves.
United States Legal professional Christopher R. Kavanaugh and Stanley M. Meador, Particular Agent in Cost of the FBI Richmond Division made the announcement as we speak.
The Greene County Sheriff’s Workplace and the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the case with help from the Virginia State Police.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Melanie Smith and Sean Welsh prosecuted the case.
