A 35-year-old Oak Grove man pleaded guilty in federal court to distributing the heroin that resulted in the overdose death of an Arizona man visiting his family in Lee’s Summit more than two years ago.
A news release says earlier this week Joshua Austin Leroux waived his right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty to information that charges him with one count of distributing heroin that caused the death of a man identified in court documents as “M.A.C.”
By pleading guilty, Leroux admitted that he distributed heroin to M.A.C. on September 3, 2017. After M.A.C. acquired the heroin from Leroux, he ingested it at some point that day or the next day. After conducting an autopsy, the Jackson County Medical Examiner declared that the cause of M.A.C.’s death was heroin intoxication.
Under federal statutes, Leroux is subject to a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years and up life in federal prison without parole.
Leroux’s sentencing hearing has not been scheduled.