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(Polk County, IA) -- Two Des Moines men will spend decades in prison after being convicted in a fentanyl death. Thirty-nine-year-old Michael James and 38-year-old Gregory Williams pleaded guilty to giving fentanyl to a man and woman, who both overdosed in 2020. The woman survived, the man died. Investigators say the Oxycodone pills given contained fentanyl. Williams, who was previously convicted, was arrested during a drug bust in 2020, in which police say he held his children at gunpoint.
Michael James has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for distributing a controlled substance which resulted in death. Gregory Williams has been sentenced to 14 years in prison on the same charge.
Investigators with the Des Moines Police Department Vice-Narcotics Unit reviewed phone records and conducted interviews, including of the victims’ friends and family, which led officers to identify Williams and James.