Overview

• Jacob Lindsay, 48, was convicted of murder and given a life term for supplying fentanyl and methamphetamine that caused Brandon Harrison’s fatal overdose on September 18, 2023.
• The law, effective September 1, 2023, allows prosecutors to charge anyone whose fentanyl delivery results in death with murder carrying penalties up to life imprisonment.
• District Attorney Phil Sorrells said the conviction delivers a clear warning that those who distribute fatal doses of fentanyl will face the harshest charges.
• Brandon Harrison’s father, Richard, praised the sentence as proof that dealers causing overdose deaths will forfeit their right to freedom.
• The case follows a series of prosecutions by Sorrells’s Narcotics Prosecution Unit and has drawn praise from the DEA as a critical weapon against fentanyl trafficking.