GREEN BAY – An Oshkosh man will spend 20 years in federal prison in connection to four overdose deaths in summer 2017 in the Fox Valley.

Desmond T. Burns, 40, was sentenced Tuesday for dealing fentanyl to four people in the Fox Valley, including an Appleton woman in May 2017 and a New London man in June 2017, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

Chief U.S. District Court Judge William C. Griesbach also ordered Burns to serve 10 years under federal supervision after his release from prison.

Fentanyl is a potent opioid is that injected. It’s often mixed with heroin. 

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Burns, whom a federal grand jury indicted in December, did not intent to kill his victims, but he was aware of how potent the drug was and that it could lead to overdoses, Griesbach said.

The Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office and New London, Appleton and Neenah police departments investigated the case.

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