The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland filed a criminal complaint Wednesday against a former Montgomery County Public Schools first grade teacher who is charged with selling drugs on school property during work hours.
MCM previously reported that Sarah Katherine Magid, 34, of Burtonsville, was indicted in connection with the March 23 death of a Washington, D.C. man from fentanyl toxicity.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Magid is charged with distributing fentanyl that resulted in serious bodily injury and death of a victim. Magid appeared in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt Thursday.
According to the charges, law enforcement officials discovered text messages between the victim and Magid pertaining to fentanyl distribution. The messages detail a drug transaction involving pills that had been pressed to appear like oxycodone hydrochloride 30 mg pills but actually contained fentanyl. After the meeting and transaction, the victim was found deceased.
The Washington, D.C., Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined the victim’s cause of death was fentanyl toxicity.
Law enforcement officials received a complaint in July that Magid, who was a MCPS teacher, left her classroom to sell drugs to people not connected with the school. The officials found text messages on Magid’s phone “indicating that she dealt drugs during work hours,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
If convicted, Magid faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years imprisonment up to a maximum sentence of life in federal prison for the distribution of fentanyl resulting in death or serious bodily injury.
Magid was placed on leave from the school district, according to a MCPS spokesperson
U.S. Attorney’s Office Files Criminal Complaint Against Burtonsville Woman in Connection With Fentanyl Overdose Deathhttp://t.co/aMZCRQxRHe
Announced with @DEAWashingtonDC @mcpnews— US Attorney Maryland (@USAO_MD) November 14, 2024
