A Las Vegas man was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years in prison in connection with the death of a Utah woman who died after taking oxycodone pills containing fentanyl mailed by him.

Bryan Walter McMahan, 41, also will serve three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $8,888.74 in restitution to the victim’s family by U.S. District Court Judge David Barlow, according to a U.S. attorney’s office release.

According to court documents, McMahan went to a post office in Las Vegas on Oct. 7, 2023, and mailed an envelope addressed to the victim with at least four pills containing fentanyl. Over the next three days, McMahan and the victim exchanged multiple text messages as the victim awaited the arrival of the package.

On Oct. 10, 2023, the package arrived and on the following day, McM

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