United States Drug Enforcement Administration

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – An Oak Grove, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for distributing the heroin that resulted in the overdose death of an Arizona man visiting his family in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. The Drug Enforcement Administration investigated the case with the Jackson County Drug Task Force.

Joshua Austin Leroux, 35, was sentenced by U.S. Chief District Judge Beth Phillips to 20 years in federal prison without parole.

On November 13, 2019, Leroux pleaded guilty to one count of distributing heroin that caused the death of a man identified in court documents as “M.A.C.” 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 on September 3, or the morning of September 4, 2017. After conducting an autopsy, the Jackson County Medical Examiner declared that the cause of M.A.C.’s death was heroin intoxication.