Wareham man sentenced to prison for selling fentanyl that killed 42-year-old man

BOSTON – A Wareham resident was sentenced yesterday for selling fentanyl to a 42-year-old man who died of an overdose.

According to the Massachusetts Department of Justice, 40-year-old Troy Jones was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Denise J. Casper to 92 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $7,868 in restitution to the family of the victim for funeral expenses. In August 2024, Jones pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl resulting in death and distributing fentanyl resulting in death. In October 2020, Jones and his co-conspirator, Kayla Nightingale were indicted by a federal grand jury.

Jones and Nightingale worked together from January 2019 through at least April 3, 2019 to distribute fentanyl in Wareham, including to a 42-year-old Wareham resident. On April 2, 2019, that resident died of a fentanyl overdose.

Nightingale pleaded guilty in August 2024, and is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 8, 2025.

U.S. Attorney Joshua S. Levy; Stephen Belleau, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New England Field Division; Colonel Geoffrey D. Noble, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police; and Wareham Police Chief Walter Correia made the announcement today. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jared Dolan of the Criminal Division is prosecuting the case.