KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — A Kalamazoo man has been convicted in Federal Court of distributing heroin causing death.
29-year-old Steven Whyte was convicted by a federal jury this week of five crimes, including, distributing, possessing and trafficking heroin, possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking and with the death of Adam Boomers of Portage, who used the drug Whyte sold and then died in October of 2016.
Because Whyte has a previous drug conviction, he will get mandatory life when he is sentenced.
U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge calls Whyte the worst kind of offender, the kind they are focusing their anti-drug efforts to prosecute.
President Trump recently suggested that U.S. Attorney’s use their authority and existing laws to pursue the death penalty in Extreme cases. There was no mention of any such sentence in this case.
