The Nez Perce County prosecutor’s office has dropped manslaughter charges against two men who allegedly sold fentanyl to a Lewiston man who died, because federal authorities have now charged the men.
According to the Lewiston Tribune, Nez Perce County Prosecutor Justin Coleman filed the involuntary manslaughter charge against Kollin Mazur last fall after Mazur allegedly sold the dose of the lethal drug that killed 26-year-old Zachary Taylor in September. In a news release Thursday afternoon, Coleman said he decided to drop the case because the federal distribution charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison, while the state charge has a 10-year maximum. Mazur and the other man, Dustin Allen, are now in federal custody.
Members of the task force arrested Mazur at his trailer home in the Clarkston Heights in October after an investigation that spanned several weeks.
According to court documents, Mazur allegedly sold Taylor the fentanyl tablets Sept. 12th. Later that day, Taylor’s mother discovered his body at his Lewiston residence. (Lewiston Tribune)
