WASHINGTON — A Prince George’s County man was sentenced Friday to 42 months in federal prison for his role in a years-long conspiracy to distribute fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone pills in the Washington, D.C., region.
Daijon West, 29, of Prince George’s County, was sentenced June 12, 2026, in U.S. District Court after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, according to federal prosecutors.
U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras also ordered West to serve four years of supervised release after his prison term. Federal prosecutors had requested a 68-month sentence.
Court documents state West distributed fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone pills in the Washington region over several years. Prosecutors said he obtained bulk quantities of the pills from a supplier in California, either by traveling to the West Coast or arranging for the pills to be shipped to him.
In May 2022, law enforcement seized a package containing about 5,500 counterfeit oxycodone pills that had been sent from California to West’s home in Maryland, according to court papers.
Between September 2022 and April 2025, West sold fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills to a law enforcement source on nine occasions, prosecutors said. The sales ranged from 100 pills to more than 1,000 pills per transaction.
Testing confirmed the pills contained fentanyl. In some transactions, testing also detected fentanyl analogues, methamphetamine, xylazine or other substances, according to federal prosecutors.
The case was investigated by the FBI Washington Field Office, the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Washington Division and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s Washington Division.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Solomon Eppel prosecuted the case.
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Selling poison for years and only receives 42 months. Should have been 42 yrs.