Jury finds dealer guilty of supplying deadly drugs at 2021 bachelor party

A Johnson City man is headed to prison after he was convicted by a jury of second-degree murder for selling the victim lethal doses of fentanyl and meth at a 2021 bachelor party.

Austin Forkpa reportedly told US Marine Corps member Bueford Patton III that the drugs were Percocet and ecstasy, according to a report from District Attorney Steve Finney’s office.

Patton was found dead of an overdose the next morning. Forkpa faces 25 years in prison when he is sentenced on September 2nd.

(IMAGE: WCSO TN)