An Orange County man pleaded guilty Thursday in downtown Los Angeles to having sold counterfeit oxycodone pills to a teenager who died of a fentanyl overdose.

Tyler David Wilkinson, 25, of Santa Ana, entered a plea in Los Angeles federal court to a single count of distribution of fentanyl.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the defendant agreed that an appropriate sentence would be between 14 and 17 1/2 years behind bars, according to Wilkinson’s plea agreement.

Sentencing was set for June 5 in downtown Los Angeles.

Court papers show the 17-year-old victim — identified only by the initials B.B. — purchased the pills in June 2021 after responding to an advertisement prosecutors say Wilkinson posted on Snapchat. Six months before the transaction that led to the teen’s death, Wilkinson posses

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