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CINCINNATI — A Cincinnati drug dealer who dealt in fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana and who shot a rival dealer last year has been handed an 18-year prison sentence in U.S. District Court.
Robert Lee Howard, 34, was charged in in a criminal complaint back in June last year and pleaded guilty in July of this year, according to a press release from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio.
That release notes that Howard had been captured on camera in February last year “shooting a rival fentanyl dealer repeatedly in the chest, after losing a bet over who sold more potent fentanyl.”
They also said agents recorded Howard, back in June of 2024, when he said he was awaiting 23 pounds of meth in the mail in several packages. When they intercepted the packages, agents found “more than four kilograms of 96% pure crystal meth.”
“That same month, Howard’s car was shot up while he was driving around Cincinnati,” the release reads. “The next day, he was recorded on calls offering to pay $10,000 total for ‘friends from Chicago’ to come to Cincinnati and solve his ‘problem’ by ‘putting [the rival fentanyl dealer] on a T-shirt.’”
He was arrested when agents conducted a search warrant at his Price Hill home. During that search, agents found:
- More than nine kilograms of fentanyl
- Cocaine
- Industrial size pill press
- Supplies to create “fake ‘ecstasy’ pills with fentanyl”
- Body armor
- Ammo
- AK-47 magazines
- Multiple firearms
The release states that four young children also lived at this residence.
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Cody Thompson
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