LOS ANGELES—A Rolling Hills man is facing 20 years to life in federal prison following his conviction for providing fentanyl-laced pills to a 15-year-old boy who ate them and died in May 2020, federal prosecutors said May 22.
Alexander Declan Bell Wilson, 22, was convicted late Friday after a five-day trial of distribution of fentanyl resulting in death, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
According to prosecutors, Wilson sold five “percs”—or fentanyl-laced pills—to 15-year-old Nathan Young-Nichols of Rolling Hills Estates on May 14, 2020. Prosecutors said the teen believed the pills he bought were “authentic pharmaceutical pills that contained the opioid oxycodone.”…