A 31-year-old New Castle man will spend 24 years in prison for selling a Pennsylvania woman fentanyl-laced heroin that resulted in her death.

Donte "Half" Jacobs was the first person from Delaware to be charged with conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl that resulted in the death of another person. A federal jury found him guilty in September following a three-day trial.

Prosecutors are increasingly using that charge nationwide in the fight against heroin and opioid addiction.

The purpose of the charge is largely to target those supplying people with drugs and the deadly effects of this distribution.

"I know the pain that her family feels," Jacobs said Friday morning during his sentencing hearing.

Jacobs' sentence was the longest fentanyl-related sentence in Delaware's federal court. The previous longest was 20 years, prosecutors told the court.

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