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Lansing man pleads to charge in fentanyl overdose death

By Brian Hagen

11/25/2024

(KAIR)--A Leavenworth County man, of the City of Lansing, has been convicted on a charge stemming from the fentanyl overdose death of a teen who used Snapchat to obtain the drug.

According to a release from the office of Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson, 20-year-old Torin Baughman, last week in Leavenworth County District Court, "pleaded guilty to an amended charge distribution of a controlled substance causing death," identified in the release as fentanyl.

Baughman had originally been charged with first-degree murder in the January 17, 2023 death of a 15-year-old Leavenworth County teen.

In exchange of the plea, a charge of aggravated endangering a child was dismissed.

Leavenworth County Sheriff's deputies arrested Baughman on March 20, 2024, after the Kansas Bureau of Investigation obtained an arrest warrant.

According to court documents cited in the release, multiple law enforcement agencies investigated the crime, including the KBI and the U.S. Secret Service, with the outcome showing that Baughman had sold the teen a pill that had been "sprayed" with fentanyl.

Sentencing for Baughman is scheduled for January 3 of next year.

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