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Dubuque man sentenced to prison for selling heroin

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March 30th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – An eastern Iowa man will spend more than five years in federal prison for selling drugs that nearly killed a woman. Twenty-seven-year-old Michael Jerome Greenwood of Dubuque admitted in his guilty plea to distributing heroin near a playground that heroin he sold in August of 2018 caused a woman to lose consciousness. Family members of the woman took her to the hospital where she was revived with a Narcan.

Greenwood also admitted to sometimes requesting sexual favors from his customers in exchange for heroin. He was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison.