WHITEHALL, Pa. – A Lehigh County man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for distributing a drug that resulted in a woman’s death.
Dimitris Smith, Jr., 48, of Whitehall, was sentenced to life imprisonment on for distributing fentanyl resulting in death, according to the Attorney General’s Office.
Officials say Smith distributed a deadly dose of fentanyl on December 11, 2023, in East Stroudsburg, Monroe County.
A 38 year old female died after ingesting the fentanyl, authorities said.
Between March 14, 2024, and April 1, 2024, Smith also distributed fentanyl and cocaine to an undercover law enforcement officer, the Attorney General’s Office said.
During this time period Smith was on federal supervised release from a prior drug trafficking conviction. On January 26, 2026, Senior United States Judge Robert D. Mariani sentenced Smith to 2 years imprisonment, to be served consecutive to the sentence on this case, for the supervised release violation, according to officials. This is Smith’s third federal drug trafficking conviction.
During the five-day trial, prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office presented testimony of 32 witnesses, including experts in forensic pathology, forensic toxicology, serology DNA profiling, forensic chemistry and historical cell site data. Witness testimony, the victim’s cell phone data and text messages, DNA evidence seized at the crime scene, and CashApp payment records were among the evidence presented that proved Smith was the dealer who supplied the fentanyl that killed the victim, authorities said.
The FBI and the Pennsylvania State Police investigated the case.