A District of Columbia man is facing federal fentanyl distribution charges, accused of selling an ultimately fatal fake pill laced with fentanyl to a Virginia man.
Anthony Winslow, 44, was indicted and is charged with one count of unlawful distribution of fentanyl resulting in death or serious bodily injury. He was arrested Wednesday near his home, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said Thursday.
In a video on social media, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said Winslow was a three-time convicted felon and that he “handed a 20-year-old a fentanyl pill disguised as oxycodone and watched him die.”
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Winslow is alleged to have sold the victim, Jack Hargreaves, of Sterling, drugs for multiple months leading up to May 19, 2024.
The U.S. attorney’s office said the two men were driving from the District to Virginia, when Winslow told officers he took the wheel after the Sterling man began driving erratically under the influence of drugs.
When Winslow stopped at a fire station in Northeast, his passenger was pronounced dead from an overdose.
Four blue M30 pills, similar in appearance to oxycodone, were found in the deceased man’s possession. A Drug Enforcement Administration lab later found the pills tested positive for fentanyl, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
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