Opinion
CASE NO. CR17-0025-JCC
08-08-2017
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. KEVIN C. CAMPBELL, Defendant.
FINDINGS OF FACT
For purposes of sentencing, the Court makes the following findings of fact:
• Defendant Kevin Campbell sold drugs online via the underground website, Silk Road.
• Defendant used the online alias "PTandRnR."
• Defendant supplied drugs to customers in various states, including Washington.
• He received payment via electronic fund transfers or Bitcoin.
• One of Defendant's customers was a 27-year-old resident of Bellevue, Washington, identified as J.M.
• Between March and August 2013, Defendant sold J.M. controlled substances—predominately Xanax and Valium—in altered movie DVD cases.
• On August 24, 2013, J.M. asked Defendant via email for "quality H."
• On August 27, 2013, Defendant replied that he could get J.M. "grams of china white," a type of heroin.
• Defendant mailed J.M. the heroin along with Xanax in an altered DVD case.
• Defendant sent follow up emails with the tracking number and shipping updates.
• The package arrived around noon on August 29, 2013.
• J.M. received an email from Defendant at 12:29 p.m., asking J.M. to provide a review of the heroin he received. J.M. never read the message. It was on his computer screen, unopened, in his Silk Road inbox when first responders arrived.
• J.M. did not show up for work that day, and a houseguest found him unconscious in his bedroom.
• On his desk investigators found an open bag of heroin, containing 1.7 grams (Defendant sent him 2 grams), a cooking spoon, and a lighter. On the floor was a used syringe, a tourniquet, and an empty DVD case.
• The DVD case contained Defendant's fingerprint.
• J.M. was taken to the hospital, where he was diagnosed and treated for severe brain injury due to respiratory failure brought on by a heroin overdose.
• On August 31, 2013, J.M.'s family took him off life support and he passed away.
• During this time, Defendant sent J.M. follow up emails seeking payment and feedback.
• A medical expert reviewed the materials and concluded that J.M. "suffered respiratory arrest followed by cardiac arrest due to acute heroin intoxication on August 29, 2013."
• The Court accordingly finds by clear and convincing evidence that Defendant sent J.M. two grams of heroin; that, upon receipt, J.M. injected himself with 0.3 grams of the heroin sold to him by Defendant; and that this caused J.M.'s death.
DATED this 8 day of August, 2017.
/s/_________
John C. Coughenour
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE